automatons
/ɔːˈtɒm.ə.tənz/
"automatons" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“automatons” is uncommon English (frequency #77,432 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,432
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of automaton
Corpus desk
Index EN-automatons · automatons · English
automatons · rank #77,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,432
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aul
Nearest frequency peer: aul (-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 “automatons”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- astrakhan
astrakhan
22,573 corpus weight
- Aubin
Aubin
22,571 corpus weight
- aul
aul
22,570 corpus weight
- automatons
automatons
22,569 corpus weight
- backdated
backdated
22,566 corpus weight
- backfill
backfill
22,565 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “automatons” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | automatons |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔːˈtɒm.ə.tənz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “automatons” in English
Rare enough to double-check
automatons is uncommon English at frequency #77,432 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɔːˈtɒm.ə.tənz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of automaton".
No misspelling variants are generated for automatons in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is automatons, spelled A-U-T-O-M-A-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural of automaton
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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