greenhouse effect
"greenhouse-effect" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“greenhouse effect” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere.
Corpus desk
Index EN-greenhouse-effect · greenhouse effect · English
greenhouse effect · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | greenhouse effect |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “greenhouse effect” in English
Rare enough to double-check
greenhouse effect is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for greenhouse effect, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in 1901 by Swedish meteorologist Nils Gustaf Ekholm. The correct English form is greenhouse effect, spelled G-R-E-E-N-H-O-U-S-E- -E-F-F-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1The process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how greenhouse effect appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Firstly, the atmosphere may act like the glass of a green-house, letting through the light rays of the sun relatively easy, and absorbing a great part of the dark rays emitted from the ground, and it thereby may raise the mean temperature of the earth's surface.
It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.
Etymology
First attested in 1901 by Swedish meteorologist Nils Gustaf Ekholm.
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.