food processor

noun

"food-processor" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small kitchen appliance for chopping or pureeing food.

Corpus desk

Index EN-food-processor · food processor · English

food processor · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for food processor
PropertyValue
Headwordfood processor
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “food processor” in English

food processorsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

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

Rare enough to double-check

food processor is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A small kitchen appliance for chopping or pureeing food.".

food processor has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is food processor, spelled F-O-O-D- -P-R-O-C-E-S-S-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A small kitchen appliance for chopping or pureeing food.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in a food processor.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "food processor"?
"food processor" is spelled F-O-O-D- -P-R-O-C-E-S-S-O-R.
What does "food processor" mean?
As a noun, "food processor" means: A small kitchen appliance for chopping or pureeing food.
What language does "food processor" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list