skylab
"skylab" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skylab” is uncommon English (frequency #71,106 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,106
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An outer space laboratory.
Corpus desk
Index EN-skylab · skylab · English
skylab · rank #71,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,106
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slanting
Nearest frequency peer: slanting (+1 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “skylab”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shoeless
shoeless
28,900 corpus weight
- Silvana
Silvana
28,898 corpus weight
- Sinan
Sinan
28,897 corpus weight
- skylab
skylab
28,895 corpus weight
- slanting
slanting
28,894 corpus weight
- sleeker
sleeker
28,892 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “skylab” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skylab |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “skylab” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
skylab is uncommon English at frequency #71,106 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An outer space laboratory.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for skylab, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sky + lab. The correct English form is skylab, spelled S-K-Y-L-A-B.
Definition
- 1An outer space laboratory.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how skylab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Two possibilities come to mind: (1) the use of multi-body spacecraft systems, e.g. space stations or shuttle skylabs employing subsatellites and/or passive balloons. (2) the use of cluster system of several small satellites of different size, geometry and surface material.
Two aspects of altered immunity must be dealt with before man can exist for extended periods in space capsules, skylabs, or sealabs.
Etymology
From sky + lab.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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