pedometer
/pɪˈdɑmətɚ/
"pedometer" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pedometer” is uncommon English (frequency #70,997 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,997
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pedometer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɪˈdɑmətɚ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pedometer” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pedometer is uncommon English at frequency #70,997 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɪˈdɑmətɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.".
pedometer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: According to the American Heritage Dictionary, from French pédomètre, from pedi-, combining form for Latin pēs (“foot”), plus -ometer, from Greek. In French now the word is podomètre, and similar in other Romance languages and in Greek (ποδόμετρο (podómetro… The correct English form is pedometer, spelled P-E-D-O-M-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.
Etymology
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, from French pédomètre, from pedi-, combining form for Latin pēs (“foot”), plus -ometer, from Greek. In French now the word is podomètre, and similar in other Romance languages and in Greek (ποδόμετρο (podómetro)). By surface analysis, pedo- (“foot”) + -meter = pedo- + -ometer.
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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Using “pedometer”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-E-D-O-M-E-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.