dehydrator
/diːhaɪdˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
"dehydrator" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dehydrator” is uncommon English (frequency #96,924 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,924
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A drying agent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dehydrator · dehydrator · English
dehydrator · rank #96,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,924
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH defs
Nearest frequency peer: defs (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “dehydrator”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- defibrillat…
defibrillation
3,081 corpus weight
- defiles
defiles
3,080 corpus weight
- defs
defs
3,078 corpus weight
- dehydrator
dehydrator
3,077 corpus weight
- Delamere
Delamere
3,076 corpus weight
- demographer
demographer
3,074 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dehydrator” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dehydrator |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /diːhaɪdˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dehydrator” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dehydrator is uncommon English at frequency #96,924 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /diːhaɪdˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dehydrator, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dehydrate + -or. The correct English form is dehydrator, spelled D-E-H-Y-D-R-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1A drying agent.
- 2A device that removes water from a material.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dehydrator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the days following the lunch, Ms. Patterson discarded a dehydrator that she’d used to dry mushrooms, then lied to the police about having done so, according to testimony at trial.
Etymology
From dehydrate + -or.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).