docudrama
/ˈdɒkjʊˌdɹɑːmə/
"docudrama" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“docudrama” is uncommon English (frequency #92,541 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,541
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-docudrama · docudrama · English
docudrama · rank #92,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,541
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dobro
Nearest frequency peer: Dobro (-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 “docudrama”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- distributab…
distributable
7,464 corpus weight
- Dobro
Dobro
7,461 corpus weight
- docudrama
docudrama
7,460 corpus weight
- doeth
doeth
7,459 corpus weight
- Dolezal
Dolezal
7,458 corpus weight
- dolman
dolman
7,457 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “docudrama” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | docudrama |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɒkjʊˌdɹɑːmə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “docudrama” in English
Rare enough to double-check
docudrama is uncommon English at frequency #92,541 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɒkjʊˌdɹɑːmə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of ...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for docudrama, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of documentary + drama. The correct English form is docudrama, spelled D-O-C-U-D-R-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1A type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how docudrama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In other words, docudrama covers an amazing variety of dramatic forms, bound together by two things. They are all based on or inspired by reality, by the lives of real people, or by events that have happened in the recent or not too distant past. Furthermore, they would seem to have a higher responsibility to accuracy and to truth than does fiction.
And docudramas would be the perfect epitaph because, though Norman Kingsley Mailer dreamed of being the monarch of the American novel, he was finally the king of faction, the man whose greatest books, a nightmare for any librarian hoping neatly to classify as fiction or non-fiction, consolidated the now standard view that reporting is as important to stor…
Etymology
Blend of documentary + drama.
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); 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).