digital camera
"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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | digital camera |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “digital camera” sits in English frequency
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
- 1An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how digital camera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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.