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worklist

noun

worklist is spelled W-O-R-K-L-I-S-T: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, worklist means “A list of work items to be performed or completed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of worklist is worklists.

How many letters and syllables are in worklist?

Letters8: W-O-R-K-L-I-S-T
In writingabout once in every 68 million words; the 258,950th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is worklist?

Worklist appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of worklist

  • worklists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does worklist mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A list of work items to be performed or completed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Worklist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchliste de tâches

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does worklist come from?

From work + list. Compare West Frisian wurklist (“agenda”), Dutch werklijst (“worklist”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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