sonogram
/ˈsəʊ.nəˌɡɹæm/
"sonogram" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sonogram” is uncommon English (frequency #74,527 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,527
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of ultrasonogram: A medical image produced by an ultrasound echo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sonogram · sonogram · English
sonogram · rank #74,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,527
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sori
Nearest frequency peer: sori (+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 “sonogram”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- snowmelt
snowmelt
25,480 corpus weight
- softy
softy
25,478 corpus weight
- solarium
solarium
25,476 corpus weight
- sonogram
sonogram
25,474 corpus weight
- sori
sori
25,473 corpus weight
- spall
spall
25,472 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sonogram” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonogram |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsəʊ.nəˌɡɹæm/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sonogram” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sonogram is uncommon English at frequency #74,527 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsəʊ.nəˌɡɹæm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sonogram in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin sonus (“sound”) + -gram, equivalent to sono- + -gram. The correct English form is sonogram, spelled S-O-N-O-G-R-A-M.
Definition
- 1Clipping of ultrasonogram: A medical image produced by an ultrasound echo.
- 2A spectrogram.
Etymology
From Latin sonus (“sound”) + -gram, equivalent to sono- + -gram.
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); 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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