dirty power

noun

"dirty-power" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An abnormality in the power quality that is being delivered to a system.

Corpus desk

Index EN-dirty-power · dirty power · English

dirty power · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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 dirty power
PropertyValue
Headworddirty power
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “dirty power” in English

dirty powersits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

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

Rare enough to double-check

dirty power is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An abnormality in the power quality that is being delivered to a system.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dirty power, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is dirty power, spelled D-I-R-T-Y- -P-O-W-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    An abnormality in the power quality that is being delivered to a system.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Power filters can filter out dirty power. Dirty power occurs when random noise enters the power line and is carried on the sine wave.

Antonyms

clean powerclean electricity

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dirty power"?
"dirty power" is spelled D-I-R-T-Y- -P-O-W-E-R.
What does "dirty power" mean?
As a noun, "dirty power" means: An abnormality in the power quality that is being delivered to a system.
What language does "dirty power" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list