digital camera

noun

"digital-camera" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“digital camera” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card.

Corpus desk

Index EN-digital-camera · digital camera · English

digital camera · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for digital camera
PropertyValue
Headworddigital camera
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “digital camera” sits in English frequency

digital camera falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

digital camera is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card.".

digital camera doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is digital camera, spelled D-I-G-I-T-A-L- -C-A-M-E-R-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how digital camera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The good thing about digital cameras and digital backs is that they allow you to change ISO in the middle of shooting. You can't do that with film.

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "digital camera"?
"digital camera" is spelled D-I-G-I-T-A-L- -C-A-M-E-R-A.
What does "digital camera" mean?
As a noun, "digital camera" means: An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card.
What language does "digital camera" come from?
"digital camera" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list