developing country
"developing-country" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“developing country” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A country with low to medium income although substantial industrialization; (sometimes derogatory) a country with less industrial base, and thus often consequently widespread poverty and low Human ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | developing country |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “developing country” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
developing country is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A country with low to medium income although substantial industrialization; (sometimes derogatory) a country with less industrial base, and thus often consequently widespread poverty and low Human ...".
developing country has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is developing country, spelled D-E-V-E-L-O-P-I-N-G- -C-O-U-N-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A country with low to medium income although substantial industrialization; (sometimes derogatory) a country with less industrial base, and thus often consequently widespread poverty and low Human Development Index (HDI).
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.
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Using “developing country”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-E-V-E-L-O-P-I-N-G- -C-O-U-N-T-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.