data record
/ˈdeɪtə ˈɹɛkɔːd/
"data-record" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“data record” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A section of the database consisting of several uniquely named components known as data fields.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | data record |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdeɪtə ˈɹɛkɔːd/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “data record” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for data record is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdeɪtə ˈɹɛkɔːd/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A section of the database consisting of several uniquely named components known as data fields.".
No misspelling variants are generated for data record in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is data record, spelled D-A-T-A- -R-E-C-O-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A section of the database consisting of several uniquely named components known as data fields.
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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.
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- The one correct English spelling is D-A-T-A- -R-E-C-O-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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