photojournalist

Name: photojournalist, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“photojournalist” has 23 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,158. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,158
frequency rank, English: 4,417
“P” headwords: 23
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A journalist who uses photojournalism.

Corpus desk

Index EN-photojournalist · photojournalist · English

photojournalist · rank #37,158 · 23 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #37,158
LEN-MEGA 15 letters
VOW-6 6 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 23 variants
BOOK-MID 4,417
PHOTO-FINISH PFC

Nearest frequency peer: PFC (-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.

perv

62,845
PFC

62,844
photojourna…

62,843
plunges

62,841
politburo

62,840
polystyrene

62,839

What this shows “photojournalist” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Key facts for photojournalist
Property	Value
Headword	photojournalist
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	15
Frequency rank	#37,158
Misspellings tracked	23
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “photojournalist”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).photojournalistlands here:

#37,158

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Same rarity band neighbours include “PFC” (#37,157), “perv” (#37,156), “plunges” (#37,160). Among 4,417 “P” headwords, “photojournalist” is #37,158. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 23 spelling variants around photojournalist, anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,158 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A journalist who uses photojournalism.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for photojournalist, with forms such as "hpotojournalist", "phhotojournalist", and "phootjournalist". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From photo- + journalist. The correct English form is photojournalist, spelled P-H-O-T-O-J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T.

Definition

1
A journalist who uses photojournalism.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how photojournalist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

“It’s a way of feeling alive, even when everything around you is falling apart,” Vasilkan, a skateboarder from Odesa, told French photojournalist Robin Tutenges.

Etymology

From photo- + journalist.

This word in other languages

photojournaliste(Français)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

hpotojournalist
phhotojournalist
phootjournalist
photjoournalist
photojjournalist
photojorunalist
photojounralist
photojouranlist
photojournailst
photojournalisst
photojournalistt
photojournalits
photojournallist
photojournalsit
photojournlaist
photojournnalist
photojourrnalist
photojuornalist
photoojurnalist
phottojournalist
phtoojournalist
pohtojournalist
pphotojournalist

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of photojournalist - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "photojournalist"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "photojournalist"?

"photojournalist" is spelled P-H-O-T-O-J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T.

What does "photojournalist" mean?

As a noun, "photojournalist" means: A journalist who uses photojournalism.

What are common misspellings of "photojournalist"?

Common misspellings include "hpotojournalist", "phhotojournalist", "phootjournalist", "photjoournalist", "photojjournalist". The correct spelling is "photojournalist".

What is the origin of the word "photojournalist"?

From photo- + journalist. See the full etymology section above for more details.

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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "photojournalist", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (23 here; floor ≥5).

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