chatbot
/ˈtʃætbɑt/
"chatbot" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chatbot” is uncommon English (frequency #66,556 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,556
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chatbot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtʃætbɑt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chatbot” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chatbot is uncommon English at frequency #66,556 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtʃætbɑt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chatbot in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From chat + -bot, from earlier chatterbot. The correct English form is chatbot, spelled C-H-A-T-B-O-T.
Definition
- 1A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.
Etymology
From chat + -bot, from earlier chatterbot.
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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Using “chatbot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-A-T-B-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.