witchery
"witchery" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“witchery” is uncommon English (frequency #79,194 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,194
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Witchcraft.
Corpus desk
Index EN-witchery · witchery · English
witchery · rank #79,194 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,194
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wint
Nearest frequency peer: Wint (-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 “witchery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- whoopee
whoopee
20,812 corpus weight
- Winstanley
Winstanley
20,809 corpus weight
- Wint
Wint
20,808 corpus weight
- witchery
witchery
20,807 corpus weight
- Woolies
Woolies
20,805 corpus weight
- wun
wun
20,802 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “witchery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | witchery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “witchery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
witchery is uncommon English at frequency #79,194 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
witchery has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From witch + -ery. The correct English form is witchery, spelled W-I-T-C-H-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Witchcraft.
- 2An act of witchcraft.
- 3Allure, charm, magic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how witchery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You are right to some extent in what you say. In the olden days people had a stronger belief in all kinds of witchery; now they pretend not to believe in it, that they may be looked upon as sensible and educated people, as you say.
They are determined that I shall be burnt as a witch; and they sent their doctor to cure me; but he was forbidden to bleed me because the silly people believe that a witch’s witchery leaves her if she is bled; so he only called me filthy names.
Etymology
From witch + -ery.
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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