echocardiography
"echocardiography" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“echocardiography” is uncommon English (frequency #68,177 among 18,836 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,177
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart; especially, cardiac ultrasonography done with cardiology-specific devices and training, as contrasted with POCUS applied cardiovascularly by an...
Corpus desk
Index EN-echocardiography · echocardiography · English
echocardiography · rank #68,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,177
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,836
- PHOTO-FINISH EBC
Nearest frequency peer: EBC (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “echocardiography”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dwelled
dwelled
31,829 corpus weight
- Eagan
Eagan
31,826 corpus weight
- EBC
EBC
31,825 corpus weight
- echocardiog…
echocardiography
31,824 corpus weight
- Eckstein
Eckstein
31,822 corpus weight
- egotism
egotism
31,820 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “echocardiography” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | echocardiography |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #68,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “echocardiography” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
echocardiography is uncommon English at frequency #68,177 among 18,836 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart; especially, cardiac ultrasonography done with cardiology-specific devices and training, as contrasted with POCUS applied cardiovascularly by an...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for echocardiography, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From echo + cardiography. The correct English form is echocardiography, spelled E-C-H-O-C-A-R-D-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y.
Definition
- 1The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart; especially, cardiac ultrasonography done with cardiology-specific devices and training, as contrasted with POCUS applied cardiovascularly by any clinician.
Etymology
From echo + cardiography.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 16 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.