growth rate
"growth-rate" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“growth rate” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The amount of growth in a quantity per unit of time.
Corpus desk
Index EN-growth-rate · growth rate · English
growth rate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | growth rate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “growth rate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
growth rate is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for growth rate, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is growth rate, spelled G-R-O-W-T-H- -R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1The amount of growth in a quantity per unit of time.
- 2The amount of growth in a quantity per unit of time, relative to the amount of the quantity during that time.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how growth rate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A global population growth rate of a constant 100 million people per year means an aging population.
The growth rate is defined as the change in the dependent variable, Y, for a time period divided by the Y value at the beginning of the period.
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.