headphones
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "headphones", 10-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "headphones" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "headphones" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
headphones is aEnglishnoun. It means: A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound. It ranks #8,553 in English word frequency. Often confused with headphone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | headphones |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for headphones is 10 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #8,553 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for headphones, with forms such as "ehadphones", "haedphones", and "headdphones". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "headphone", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From head + phones. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is headphones, spelled H-E-A-D-P-H-O-N-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.
- 2A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.
Etymology
From head + phones.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehadphones,haedphones,headdphones,headhpones,headphhones,headphnoes,headphoens,headphoness,headphonnes,headphonse,headpohnes,headpphones,heapdhones,hedaphones,hheadphones
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for headphones
Misspelling Variants of "headphones"
Frequency rank: #8,553 in English
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