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daguerreotype

/dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)oʊˌtaɪp/noun, verb

daguerreotype is spelled D-A-G-U-E-R-R-E-O-T-Y-P-E. The wrong spelling people search most is daguerrotype: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Daguerreotype is a noun meaning “An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either…”. The plural of daguerreotype is daguerreotypes.

How many letters and syllables are in daguerreotype?

Letters13: D-A-G-U-E-R-R-E-O-T-Y-P-E
Syllables5 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 84,254th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, daguerrotype, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell daguerreotype?

Daguerreotype is spelled D-A-G-U-E-R-R-E-O-T-Y-P-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for daguerreotype in either form.

daguerreotypethe right spelling2,410 searches a month
daguerrotypea missing e160 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is daguerreotype?

Daguerreotype appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce daguerreotype?

  • UK /dəˈɡɛɹ.(ɪ.)əʊˌtaɪp/
  • US /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)oʊˌtaɪp/
  • US /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)əˌtaɪp/

Daguerreotype has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-daguerreotype.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of daguerreotype

  • daguerreotypes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • daguerreotyping participle, present
  • daguerreotyped participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does daguerreotype mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.

  2. 2

    The process of making such photographs.

  3. 3

    obsoleteA faithful or exact representation or description.

verb

  1. 1

    To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Daguerreotype in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdaguerréotype (type of photograph), daguerréotyper (make a photograph)
GermanDaguerreotypie (type of photograph)
Portuguesedaguerreótipo (type of photograph)
Spanishdaguerrotipo (type of photograph), daguerrotipar (make a photograph)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does daguerreotype come from?

From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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