recordkeeping
"recordkeeping" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“recordkeeping” is uncommon English (frequency #77,129 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,129
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The creation, collection and management of records, especially of a business or governmental nature.
Corpus desk
Index EN-recordkeeping · recordkeeping · English
recordkeeping · rank #77,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,129
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reappointment
Nearest frequency peer: reappointment (-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 “recordkeeping”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- RBF
RBF
22,875 corpus weight
- readymade
readymade
22,874 corpus weight
- reappointme…
reappointment
22,873 corpus weight
- recordkeepi…
recordkeeping
22,872 corpus weight
- rectitude
rectitude
22,871 corpus weight
- reeducation
reeducation
22,869 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “recordkeeping” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recordkeeping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #77,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “recordkeeping” in English
Rare enough to double-check
recordkeeping is uncommon English at frequency #77,129 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The creation, collection and management of records, especially of a business or governmental nature.".
recordkeeping has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From record + keeping. The correct English form is recordkeeping, spelled R-E-C-O-R-D-K-E-E-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The creation, collection and management of records, especially of a business or governmental nature.
Etymology
From record + keeping.
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).