spectroscope
noun
spectroscope is spelled S-P-E-C-T-R-O-S-C-O-P-E. The wrong spelling people search most is spectrascope: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Spectroscope is a noun meaning “An optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis”. The plural of spectroscope is spectroscopes.
How many letters and syllables are in spectroscope?
| Letters | 12: S-P-E-C-T-R-O-S-C-O-P-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, spectrascope, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell spectroscope?
Spectroscope is spelled S-P-E-C-T-R-O-S-C-O-P-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for spectroscope in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is spectroscope?
Spectroscope appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce spectroscope?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-spectroscope.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of spectroscope
- spectroscopes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spectroscope mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis .
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Spectroscope in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | spectroscope |
| German | Spektroskop |
| Portuguese | espectroscópio |
| Spanish | espectroscopio |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does spectroscope come from?
From spectro- + -scope.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).