response time
"response-time" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“response time” 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) - The period of time between the application of a stimulus and the associated response from a cell or tissue.
Corpus desk
Index EN-response-time · response time · English
response time · 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 | response time |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “response time” in English
Rare enough to double-check
response time is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for response time in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is response time, spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-E- -T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1The period of time between the application of a stimulus and the associated response from a cell or tissue.
- 2The time taken for a person (or human-controlled system) to respond to a request.
- 3The time taken for the display of an instrument to move to a new value following a step change.
- 4The period of time between a request for a service and the associated response; typically the request is caused by a user at a terminal hitting the return key, and the response is displayed on a screen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how response time appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Professor G. Fano (Florence), after accurately determining the "latent period," or "response time," following faradic stimulation of a given motor area
the average response time on a call was 3.1 minutes
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.