climate change
/ˈklaɪmət ˌtʃeɪndʒ/
"climate-change" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“climate change” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Natural large-scale and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system, as brought about by ice ages.
Corpus desk
Index EN-climate-change · climate change · English
climate change · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | climate change |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈklaɪmət ˌtʃeɪndʒ/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “climate change” in English
Rare enough to double-check
climate change is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈklaɪmət ˌtʃeɪndʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
climate change has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is climate change, spelled C-L-I-M-A-T-E- -C-H-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Natural large-scale and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system, as brought about by ice ages.
- 2Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system produced by global warming; anthropogenic climate change.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how climate change appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
“Climate change is a global problem with grave implications: environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods,” he writes. “It represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.”
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.