audio-book
"audio-book" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“audio-book” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rare spelling of audiobook.
Corpus desk
Index EN-audio-book · audio-book · English
audio-book · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | audio-book |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “audio-book” in English
Rare enough to double-check
audio-book is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rare spelling of audiobook.".
No misspelling variants are generated for audio-book in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is audio-book, spelled A-U-D-I-O---B-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1Rare spelling of audiobook.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how audio-book appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Walking can even add to your intellectual dimension of wellness if you listen to an audio-book or podcast and to your emotional dimension if you mentally work through a stressful issue.
If you ‘hate’ cooking, then find a way to make it enjoyable. Listen to your favourite music, or an audio-book to distract you from your task.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.