operating-room
"operating-room" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“operating-room” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of operating room.
Corpus desk
Index EN-operating-room · operating-room · English
operating-room · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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 | operating-room |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “operating-room” in English
Rare enough to double-check
operating-room is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of operating room.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for operating-room in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is operating-room, spelled O-P-E-R-A-T-I-N-G---R-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of operating room.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how operating-room appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On its being announced that about 25l. was ſtill wanting to complete the new operating-room, (the expence of which is defrayed by a ſubſcription independent of the funds of the hoſpital,) W. C. Trevelyan, eſq; preſented 5l. and Col. Pinney, in the name of the officers of his regt. (the Somerton and Langport local militia) gave 20l. being the ſecond donati…
When it is used for medical clinics, glass doors close it off from the passageway on either side, but along either of these passageways surgical cases can be brought from the etherizing-room to an operating-room on either side, under the amphitheater. These operating-rooms have a northern light, a side light and also a skylight, the latter being shown on…
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.