astrophotography
"astrophotography" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“astrophotography” is uncommon English (frequency #80,207 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,207
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events or areas of the night sky.
Corpus desk
Index EN-astrophotography · astrophotography · English
astrophotography · rank #80,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,207
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH atavistic
Nearest frequency peer: atavistic (+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 “astrophotography”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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19,796 corpus weight
- astrophotog…
astrophotography
19,794 corpus weight
- atavistic
atavistic
19,793 corpus weight
- augurs
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19,790 corpus weight
- autocorrela…
autocorrelation
19,789 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “astrophotography” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astrophotography |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #80,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “astrophotography” in English
Rare enough to double-check
astrophotography is uncommon English at frequency #80,207 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events or areas of the night sky.".
astrophotography has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From astro- + photography. The correct English form is astrophotography, spelled A-S-T-R-O-P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y.
Definition
- 1The photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events or areas of the night sky.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how astrophotography appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As in most nature photography, the 35mm single lens reflex camera is probably the best choice for astrophotography.
Their^([CMOS sensors']) pixel size, linearity and noise performance are not necessarily ideal for astrophotography.
Etymology
From astro- + photography.
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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