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readthrough

noun

readthrough is spelled R-E-A-D-T-H-R-O-U-G-H: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, readthrough means “The process of reading through something; a perusal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of readthrough is readthroughs.

How many letters and syllables are in readthrough?

Letters11: R-E-A-D-T-H-R-O-U-G-H
In writingabout once in every 42 million words; the 199,120th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is readthrough?

Readthrough appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).

Forms of readthrough

  • readthroughs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does readthrough mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The process of reading through something; a perusal.

  2. 2

    An organized reading of the screenplay or script by all of the actors, prior to the actual performance.

  3. 3

    The situation where a modified stop codon allows transcription to continue beyond the usual point.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does readthrough come from?

Deverbal from read through.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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