wringer
/ˈɹɪŋə(ɹ)/
"wringer" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wringer” is uncommon English (frequency #67,966 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,966
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who wrings.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wringer · wringer · English
wringer · rank #67,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,966
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wraiths
Nearest frequency peer: wraiths (-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 “wringer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- workbooks
workbooks
32,038 corpus weight
- wraiths
wraiths
32,036 corpus weight
- wringer
wringer
32,035 corpus weight
- wrinkling
wrinkling
32,034 corpus weight
- writeup
writeup
32,033 corpus weight
- xiong
xiong
32,032 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wringer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wringer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɪŋə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wringer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wringer is uncommon English at frequency #67,966 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹɪŋə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for wringer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wringere, equivalent to wring + -er. The correct English form is wringer, spelled W-R-I-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who wrings.
- 2One who wrings.
- 3A device for drying laundry consisting of two rollers between which the wet laundry is squeezed (or wrung).
- 4Something that causes pain, hardship, or exertion; an ordeal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wringer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We wringers of hands don't really want a step to take! We want to continue our hand-wringing and feel hostile toward anyone who acts as if there's something simple to do about any problem.
Reynders brushed a messy lock of orange hair out of her eyes for the dozenth time. Her body didn't change in the ADDC, actively resisted and eventually reverted any changes being consciously made to it, but in her constant state of nervous paranoia she was doing a bang-up job of making herself look like she'd been through several sequential wringers. "I k…
Etymology
From Middle English wringere, equivalent to wring + -er.
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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