precious metal
"precious-metal" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“precious metal” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A rare metallic chemical element of high economic value, such as gold, platinum, palladium, or rhodium.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | precious metal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “precious metal” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
precious metal is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A rare metallic chemical element of high economic value, such as gold, platinum, palladium, or rhodium.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for precious metal, 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is precious metal, spelled P-R-E-C-I-O-U-S- -M-E-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1A rare metallic chemical element of high economic value, such as gold, platinum, palladium, or rhodium.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “precious metal”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-R-E-C-I-O-U-S- -M-E-T-A-L - 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.