record-player
"record-player" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“record-player” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of record player.
Corpus desk
Index EN-record-player · record-player · English
record-player · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | record-player |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “record-player” in English
Rare enough to double-check
record-player is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of record player.".
record-player has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is record-player, spelled R-E-C-O-R-D---P-L-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of record player.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how record-player appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Hey, Clever,” he said to our bombardier, “will you-all do a fellow a big favor and carry my phonograph records under your seat? I’ll take my record-player along in my plane and we’ll meet in Chungking and have us some razz-ma-tazz,” and Shorty practically trucked on away from us through the turmoil. Clever shrugged and put the can of hot records under hi…
Here’s a bit of humor from a website: “What makes you think the prisoner was drunk?” asked the judge. “Well, your honor,” replied the arresting officer, “I saw him lift up a manhole cover and walk away with it, and when I asked him what it was for, he said, ‘I want to listen to it on my record-player!’”
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.