radio drama
/ˈɹeɪdiˌəʊ dɹɑːmə/
"radio-drama" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“radio drama” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radio drama |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹeɪdiˌəʊ dɹɑːmə/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “radio drama” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
radio drama is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹeɪdiˌəʊ dɹɑːmə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for radio drama in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is radio drama, spelled R-A-D-I-O- -D-R-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD.
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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 “radio drama”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-A-D-I-O- -D-R-A-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɹeɪdiˌəʊ dɹɑːmə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.