wintertime
"wintertime" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wintertime” is uncommon English (frequency #52,105 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,105
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The season of winter, between autumn and spring.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wintertime · wintertime · English
wintertime · rank #52,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,105
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wilks
Nearest frequency peer: Wilks (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “wintertime”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wifey
wifey
47,900 corpus weight
- wilco
wilco
47,899 corpus weight
- wildebeest
wildebeest
47,898 corpus weight
- Wilks
Wilks
47,897 corpus weight
- wintertime
wintertime
47,896 corpus weight
- woodcut
woodcut
47,895 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wintertime” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “wintertime” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wintertime is uncommon English at frequency #52,105 among 1,759 “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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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