audiotape
"audiotape" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“audiotape” is uncommon English (frequency #88,073 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,073
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A magnetic tape that stores analog sound for later playback on a tape player.
Corpus desk
Index EN-audiotape · audiotape · English
audiotape · rank #88,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,073
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aten
Nearest frequency peer: aten (-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 “audiotape”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Arundhati
Arundhati
11,932 corpus weight
- Atatürk
Atatürk
11,930 corpus weight
- aten
aten
11,929 corpus weight
- audiotape
audiotape
11,928 corpus weight
- auroral
auroral
11,927 corpus weight
- Australopit…
Australopithecus
11,926 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “audiotape” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | audiotape |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “audiotape” in English
Rare enough to double-check
audiotape is uncommon English at frequency #88,073 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
audiotape has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From audio + tape. The correct English form is audiotape, spelled A-U-D-I-O-T-A-P-E.
Definition
- 1A magnetic tape that stores analog sound for later playback on a tape player.
- 2Any of a cassette tape, eight-track tape, reel-to-reel tape, DAT, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how audiotape appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I thought of an old ad for Memorex audiotape. It showed a crystal glass being shattered by sound vibrations. By pure harmonics.
Etymology
From audio + tape.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).