oceanographer
/ˌoʊʃəˈnɑɡɹəfəɹ/
"oceanographer" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oceanographer” is uncommon English (frequency #67,697 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,697
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a person who studies oceanography, the science of oceans
Corpus desk
Index EN-oceanographer · oceanographer · English
oceanographer · rank #67,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,697
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH objectify
Nearest frequency peer: objectify (-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 “oceanographer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nutritive
nutritive
32,307 corpus weight
- objectify
objectify
32,305 corpus weight
- oceanograph…
oceanographer
32,304 corpus weight
- offscreen
offscreen
32,303 corpus weight
- ohana
ohana
32,301 corpus weight
- OIS
OIS
32,300 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “oceanographer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oceanographer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌoʊʃəˈnɑɡɹəfəɹ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #67,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “oceanographer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oceanographer is uncommon English at frequency #67,697 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌoʊʃəˈnɑɡɹəfəɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a person who studies oceanography, the science of oceans".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for oceanographer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is oceanographer, spelled O-C-E-A-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1a person who studies oceanography, the science of oceans
Synonyms
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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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