photography
pho·to·gra·phy/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/noun
photography is spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y, 4 syllables: pho·to·gra·phy. The wrong spelling people search most is fotography: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,000 of all searches for the word. Photography is a noun meaning “The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart”. The plural of photography is photographies.
How many letters and syllables are in photography?
| Letters | 11: P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: pho·to·gra·phy |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,288th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, fotography, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell photography?
Photography is spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 990 of the searches for photography 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 photography?
Photography appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,288th 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).
How do you pronounce photography?
- UK /fəˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
- US /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/
- Canada /fəˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
Photography has 4 syllables, split pho·to·gra·phy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-photography.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with photography?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as photography from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɡɹəfi/):
- geography
- biography
- pornography
- choreography
- topography
- discography
- tomography
- typography
- oceanography
- ethnography
- historiography
- crystallography
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of photography
- photographies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does photography mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
go on a photography course
- 2
The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate photography?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of photography: AGP.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Photography in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | photographie |
| German | Fotografie |
| Portuguese | fotografia |
| Spanish | fotografía |
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 photography come from?
From French photographie. By surface analysis, photo- + -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φῶς (phôs, “of light”), and γράφω (gráphō, “write, draw”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).