woodsman
"woodsman" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“woodsman” is uncommon English (frequency #72,903 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,903
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-woodsman · woodsman · English
woodsman · rank #72,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,903
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 12,113
- PHOTO-FINISH Worrall
Nearest frequency peer: Worrall (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “woodsman”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- widowhood
widowhood
27,103 corpus weight
- Willmott
Willmott
27,102 corpus weight
- WLAN
WLAN
27,100 corpus weight
- woodsman
woodsman
27,098 corpus weight
- Worrall
Worrall
27,097 corpus weight
- yellowfin
yellowfin
27,094 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “woodsman” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | woodsman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “woodsman” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
woodsman is uncommon English at frequency #72,903 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for woodsman, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From woods + -man. Compare earlier woodman. The correct English form is woodsman, spelled W-O-O-D-S-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman.
- 2Designating a group of sports related to forestry culture, including axe throwing, wood splitting, wood chopping, axe cutting, chainsaw cutting, pulpwood tossing, log rolling and decking, pole climbing, and firemaking.
Etymology
From woods + -man. Compare earlier woodman.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.