entertainment value

noun

"entertainment-value" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
19
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The potential to be entertaining.

Corpus desk

Index EN-entertainment-value · entertainment value · English

entertainment value · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 19 letters
  • VOW-8 8 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" 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 entertainment value
PropertyValue
Headwordentertainment value
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “entertainment value” in English

entertainment valuefalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Rare enough to double-check

entertainment value is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The potential to be entertaining.".

entertainment value has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is entertainment value, spelled E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T- -V-A-L-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The potential to be entertaining.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Magic soon came to recognized for its entertainment value, though its more nefarious side could not be forgotten easily.

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 "entertainment value"?
"entertainment value" is spelled E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T- -V-A-L-U-E.
What does "entertainment value" mean?
As a noun, "entertainment value" means: The potential to be entertaining.
What language does "entertainment value" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list