monochromator
noun
monochromator is spelled M-O-N-O-C-H-R-O-M-A-T-O-R. The wrong spelling people search most is monochrometer: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Monochromator is a noun meaning “An optical device, consisting of one or more slits, that selects a narrow band of wavelengths from a broader…”. The plural of monochromator is monochromators.
How many letters and syllables are in monochromator?
| Letters | 13: M-O-N-O-C-H-R-O-M-A-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, monochrometer, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell monochromator?
Monochromator is spelled M-O-N-O-C-H-R-O-M-A-T-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for monochromator in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is monochromator?
Monochromator appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Forms of monochromator
- monochromators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does monochromator mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An optical device, consisting of one or more slits, that selects a narrow band of wavelengths from a broader spectrum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Monochromator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense optical device:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | monocromador |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does monochromator come from?
From monochrome + -ator.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).