remote control
"remote-control" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“remote control” 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 device used to operate an appliance (such as a television, vehicle, or mechanical toy) from a short distance away.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remote control |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “remote control” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
remote control is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for remote control, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is remote control, spelled R-E-M-O-T-E- -C-O-N-T-R-O-L.
Definition
- 1A device used to operate an appliance (such as a television, vehicle, or mechanical toy) from a short distance away.
- 2A means of operating a device from a distance.
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 “remote control”
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- The one correct English spelling is R-E-M-O-T-E- -C-O-N-T-R-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.