electroencephalography
"electroencephalography" is a 22-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“electroencephalography” is uncommon English (frequency #89,322 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,322
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-electroencephalography · electroencephalography · English
electroencephalography · rank #89,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,322
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH electorally
Nearest frequency peer: electorally (-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 “electroencephalography”
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electorally
10,680 corpus weight
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electroencephalography
10,679 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “electroencephalography” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | electroencephalography |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 22 |
| Frequency rank | #89,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “electroencephalography” in English
Rare enough to double-check
electroencephalography is uncommon English at frequency #89,322 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for electroencephalography in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From electro- + encephalo- + -graphy. The correct English form is electroencephalography, spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-O-E-N-C-E-P-H-A-L-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y.
Definition
- 1The measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how electroencephalography appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Indeed, while many philosophers of language in the 20th century proposed that we think in sentence-like strings of language, use of brain imaging technology like electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) has since revealed that thinking more probably happens in a complex combination of images and associations.
Etymology
From electro- + encephalo- + -graphy.
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.