cosmodrome
"cosmodrome" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cosmodrome” is uncommon English (frequency #75,764 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,764
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A site for launching spacecraft, usually in reference to such Soviet or Russian built sites as the Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Plesetsk, Russia cosmodromes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cosmodrome · cosmodrome · English
cosmodrome · rank #75,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,764
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH corruptly
Nearest frequency peer: corruptly (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cosmodrome”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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24,238 corpus weight
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24,237 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “cosmodrome” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cosmodrome |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cosmodrome” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cosmodrome is uncommon English at frequency #75,764 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A site for launching spacecraft, usually in reference to such Soviet or Russian built sites as the Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Plesetsk, Russia cosmodromes.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cosmodrome in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cosmo- + -drome, modelled after aerodrome. The correct English form is cosmodrome, spelled C-O-S-M-O-D-R-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1A site for launching spacecraft, usually in reference to such Soviet or Russian built sites as the Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Plesetsk, Russia cosmodromes.
Etymology
From cosmo- + -drome, modelled after aerodrome.
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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