speedup
"speedup" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“speedup” is uncommon English (frequency #81,844 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,844
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.
Corpus desk
Index EN-speedup · speedup · English
speedup · rank #81,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,844
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH speedball
Nearest frequency peer: speedball (-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 “speedup”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Soliman
Soliman
18,162 corpus weight
- Somnath
Somnath
18,161 corpus weight
- Southworth
Southworth
18,160 corpus weight
- speedball
speedball
18,158 corpus weight
- speedup
speedup
18,157 corpus weight
- spork
spork
18,152 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “speedup” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | speedup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “speedup” in English
Rare enough to double-check
speedup is uncommon English at frequency #81,844 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for speedup, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from speed up. The correct English form is speedup, spelled S-P-E-E-D-U-P.
Definition
- 1An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.
- 2The relationship between time taken and number of processors used.
- 3An employer's demand for more output without more pay.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how speedup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]
There were, of course, those observers who argued that since in some industries 50 or 60 per cent of those employed were scientific, technical, and administrative staff, the employer would soon include them in his speedup plans.
Etymology
Deverbal from speed up.
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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