holography
"holography" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“holography” is uncommon English (frequency #77,770 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,770
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a technique for recording, and then reconstructing, the amplitude and phase distributions of a coherent wave disturbance; used to produce three-dimensional images or holograms
Corpus desk
Index EN-holography · holography · English
holography · rank #77,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,770
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hisself
Nearest frequency peer: hisself (-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 “holography”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hieronymus
Hieronymus
22,235 corpus weight
- Hillingdon
Hillingdon
22,234 corpus weight
- hisself
hisself
22,232 corpus weight
- holography
holography
22,231 corpus weight
- homescreen
homescreen
22,229 corpus weight
- Honan
Honan
22,228 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “holography” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holography |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “holography” in English
Rare enough to double-check
holography is uncommon English at frequency #77,770 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a technique for recording, and then reconstructing, the amplitude and phase distributions of a coherent wave disturbance; used to produce three-dimensional images or holograms".
holography has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From holograph + -y. The correct English form is holography, spelled H-O-L-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y.
Definition
- 1a technique for recording, and then reconstructing, the amplitude and phase distributions of a coherent wave disturbance; used to produce three-dimensional images or holograms
Etymology
From holograph + -y.
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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