binaural
"binaural" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“binaural” is uncommon English (frequency #61,313 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,313
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with two ears.
Corpus desk
Index EN-binaural · binaural · English
binaural · rank #61,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,313
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Billington
Nearest frequency peer: Billington (-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 “binaural”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bigly
bigly
38,691 corpus weight
- Billington
Billington
38,689 corpus weight
- binaural
binaural
38,688 corpus weight
- bindi
bindi
38,687 corpus weight
- bioactive
bioactive
38,686 corpus weight
- birdwatching
birdwatching
38,685 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “binaural” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | binaural |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “binaural” in English
Rare enough to double-check
binaural is uncommon English at frequency #61,313 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with two ears.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for binaural in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bin- + aural. The correct English form is binaural, spelled B-I-N-A-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with two ears.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how binaural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In 1839, German experimenter Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered that illusory "beats" are perceived when pure tones of slightly different frequency are separately and simultaneously presented to each ear. Dove's insight was to realize that since there is no acoustic mixing of the tones, the perceived beats must exist solely within the auditory system, speci…
Etymology
From bin- + aural.
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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