windsurfing
"windsurfing" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“windsurfing” is uncommon English (frequency #54,571 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,571
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A marine sport in which one stands on a floating board (typically 2 - 3 meters in length) to which a sail is attached. The board is steered by tilting the sail or banking the board. Some windsurfer...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | windsurfing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “windsurfing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
windsurfing is uncommon English at frequency #54,571 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A marine sport in which one stands on a floating board (typically 2 - 3 meters in length) to which a sail is attached. The board is steered by tilting the sail or banking the board. Some windsurfer...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for windsurfing in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wind + surfing. The correct English form is windsurfing, spelled W-I-N-D-S-U-R-F-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A marine sport in which one stands on a floating board (typically 2 - 3 meters in length) to which a sail is attached. The board is steered by tilting the sail or banking the board. Some windsurfers use large waves to perform jumps and other stunts.
Etymology
From wind + surfing.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is W-I-N-D-S-U-R-F-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.