wintertime
"wintertime" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wintertime” is uncommon English (frequency #52,105 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,105
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The season of winter, between autumn and spring.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wintertime |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wintertime” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wintertime is uncommon English at frequency #52,105 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The season of winter, between autumn and spring.".
wintertime doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From winter + time. The correct English form is wintertime, spelled W-I-N-T-E-R-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1The season of winter, between autumn and spring.
Etymology
From winter + time.
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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Using “wintertime”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-I-N-T-E-R-T-I-M-E - 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.