downtempo
"downtempo" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“downtempo” is uncommon English (frequency #85,193 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,193
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A genre of house music and ambient music with an ethereal sound and a driving beat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-downtempo · downtempo · English
downtempo · rank #85,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,193
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dougan
Nearest frequency peer: Dougan (-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 “downtempo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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14,812 corpus weight
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doubtlessly
14,810 corpus weight
- Dougan
Dougan
14,809 corpus weight
- downtempo
downtempo
14,808 corpus weight
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Dromore
14,807 corpus weight
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drydock
14,805 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “downtempo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | downtempo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “downtempo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
downtempo is uncommon English at frequency #85,193 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A genre of house music and ambient music with an ethereal sound and a driving beat.".
Zero misspellings are on record for downtempo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From down + tempo. The correct English form is downtempo, spelled D-O-W-N-T-E-M-P-O.
Definition
- 1A genre of house music and ambient music with an ethereal sound and a driving beat.
Etymology
From down + tempo.
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).