photosphere
"photosphere" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“photosphere” is uncommon English (frequency #85,647 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,647
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A visible surface layer of a star, and especially that of a sun.
Corpus desk
Index EN-photosphere · photosphere · English
photosphere · rank #85,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,647
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH picaresque
Nearest frequency peer: picaresque (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “photosphere”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pern
pern
14,360 corpus weight
- philologist
philologist
14,357 corpus weight
- photosphere
photosphere
14,354 corpus weight
- picaresque
picaresque
14,353 corpus weight
- Pieters
Pieters
14,352 corpus weight
- playbill
playbill
14,348 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “photosphere” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | photosphere |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “photosphere” in English
Rare enough to double-check
photosphere is uncommon English at frequency #85,647 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A visible surface layer of a star, and especially that of a sun.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for photosphere, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From photo- + -sphere. The correct English form is photosphere, spelled P-H-O-T-O-S-P-H-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1A visible surface layer of a star, and especially that of a sun.
Etymology
From photo- + -sphere.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).