sonography
"sonography" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sonography” is uncommon English (frequency #93,170 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,170
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of ultrasonography
Corpus desk
Index EN-sonography · sonography · English
sonography · rank #93,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,170
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH somedays
Nearest frequency peer: somedays (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “sonography”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Soderberg
Soderberg
6,834 corpus weight
- solidus
solidus
6,833 corpus weight
- somedays
somedays
6,832 corpus weight
- sonography
sonography
6,831 corpus weight
- sophist
sophist
6,830 corpus weight
- southbridge
southbridge
6,828 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sonography” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonography |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sonography” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sonography is uncommon English at frequency #93,170 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sonography in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sono- + -graphy. The correct English form is sonography, spelled S-O-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Clipping of ultrasonography
- 2night writing
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sonography appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sonographic assessments including brain and abdominal sonographies and ocular examination for the potential seeding of the fungi were normal.
Etymology
From sono- + -graphy.
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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