audiophile
/ˈɔː.di.əʊˌfaɪl/
"audiophile" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“audiophile” is uncommon English (frequency #55,928 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,928
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person with an interest in high fidelity music and/or sound reproduction and its associated technology.
Corpus desk
Index EN-audiophile · audiophile · English
audiophile · rank #55,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,928
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH astigmatism
Nearest frequency peer: astigmatism (-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 “audiophile”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Asis
Asis
44,076 corpus weight
- Asterix
Asterix
44,075 corpus weight
- astigmatism
astigmatism
44,074 corpus weight
- audiophile
audiophile
44,073 corpus weight
- Audley
Audley
44,072 corpus weight
- avast
avast
44,071 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “audiophile” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | audiophile |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɔː.di.əʊˌfaɪl/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “audiophile” in English
Rare enough to double-check
audiophile is uncommon English at frequency #55,928 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɔː.di.əʊˌfaɪl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person with an interest in high fidelity music and/or sound reproduction and its associated technology.".
audiophile has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From audio- + -phile. The correct English form is audiophile, spelled A-U-D-I-O-P-H-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1A person with an interest in high fidelity music and/or sound reproduction and its associated technology.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how audiophile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
However, almost every serious audiophile or electronics hobbyist already knows that bar/graph displays are close to useless for the application they are most commonly used for, which is the attempt to indicate output power levels of audio power amplifiers.
Etymology
From audio- + -phile.
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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