soundcheck
"soundcheck" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soundcheck” is uncommon English (frequency #72,780 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,780
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An activity that takes place before a concert, etc., when the performer and sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound system to verify the volume and tonal fr...
Corpus desk
Index EN-soundcheck · soundcheck · English
soundcheck · rank #72,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,780
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH soper
Nearest frequency peer: soper (-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 “soundcheck”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Solvay
Solvay
27,224 corpus weight
- soper
soper
27,222 corpus weight
- soundcheck
soundcheck
27,221 corpus weight
- Southey
Southey
27,220 corpus weight
- speckle
speckle
27,219 corpus weight
- spendthrift
spendthrift
27,218 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “soundcheck” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soundcheck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “soundcheck” in English
Rare enough to double-check
soundcheck is uncommon English at frequency #72,780 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An activity that takes place before a concert, etc., when the performer and sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound system to verify the volume and tonal fr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for soundcheck in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sound + check. The correct English form is soundcheck, spelled S-O-U-N-D-C-H-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1An activity that takes place before a concert, etc., when the performer and sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound system to verify the volume and tonal frequencies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soundcheck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soundcheck for the band, today, takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. It is late afternoon and while the arena's 17,000 outdoor seats are still empty the four members of Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel a smash on all fronts – wander to…
Etymology
From sound + check.
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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