phablet
/ˈfæblɪt/
"phablet" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“phablet” is uncommon English (frequency #81,695 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,695
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A mobile device intermediate in size between smartphone and tablet.
Corpus desk
Index EN-phablet · phablet · English
phablet · rank #81,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,695
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH pharos
Nearest frequency peer: pharos (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “phablet”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- penitential
penitential
18,311 corpus weight
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perineal
18,309 corpus weight
- peritoneum
peritoneum
18,308 corpus weight
- phablet
phablet
18,306 corpus weight
- pharos
pharos
18,305 corpus weight
- PHB
PHB
18,304 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “phablet” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phablet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfæblɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “phablet” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
phablet is uncommon English at frequency #81,695 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfæblɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A mobile device intermediate in size between smartphone and tablet.".
Zero misspellings are on record for phablet in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of phone + tablet. The correct English form is phablet, spelled P-H-A-B-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1A mobile device intermediate in size between smartphone and tablet.
Etymology
Blend of phone + tablet.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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.