geolocation
"geolocation" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“geolocation” is uncommon English (frequency #69,883 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,883
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The identification of geographic location, as of an electronic device or an animal being tracked.
Corpus desk
Index EN-geolocation · geolocation · English
geolocation · rank #69,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,883
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH geocaching
Nearest frequency peer: geocaching (-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 “geolocation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- geocaching
geocaching
30,119 corpus weight
- geolocation
geolocation
30,118 corpus weight
- Geraghty
Geraghty
30,117 corpus weight
- germinal
germinal
30,116 corpus weight
- Gethsemane
Gethsemane
30,115 corpus weight
- giggly
giggly
30,114 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “geolocation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geolocation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “geolocation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
geolocation is uncommon English at frequency #69,883 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
geolocation has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From geo- + location. The correct English form is geolocation, spelled G-E-O-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The identification of geographic location, as of an electronic device or an animal being tracked.
- 2The latitude and longitude coordinates of a particular location. Term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC 19762-5:2008 (this standard has since been revised by ISO/IEC 19762:2016).
Etymology
From geo- + location.
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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).