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spirograph

noun

spirograph is spelled S-P-I-R-O-G-R-A-P-H: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spirograph means “an instrument for measuring and recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spirograph is spirographs.

How many letters and syllables are in spirograph?

Letters10: S-P-I-R-O-G-R-A-P-H
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is spirograph?

Spirograph appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).

Forms of spirograph

  • spirographs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does spirograph mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    an instrument for measuring and recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements

noun

as Spirograph
  1. 1

    A geometric drawing toy consisting of a set of plastic gears and toothed rings.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Spirograph in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a geometric drawing toy:

LanguageWords
FrenchSpirographe

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 spirograph come from?

From spiro- + graph.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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