talkback
"talkback" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“talkback” is uncommon English (frequency #71,958 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,958
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A system in broadcasting and recording studios that enables the director to communicate with others (host, presenter, anchor) during performance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-talkback · talkback · English
talkback · rank #71,958 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,958
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Takada
Nearest frequency peer: Takada (-2 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 “talkback”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- synthetase
synthetase
28,047 corpus weight
- synthetical…
synthetically
28,046 corpus weight
- Takada
Takada
28,045 corpus weight
- talkback
talkback
28,043 corpus weight
- TANF
TANF
28,040 corpus weight
- Tannenbaum
Tannenbaum
28,039 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “talkback” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | talkback |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “talkback” in English
Rare enough to double-check
talkback is uncommon English at frequency #71,958 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
talkback has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from talk back. The correct English form is talkback, spelled T-A-L-K-B-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1A system in broadcasting and recording studios that enables the director to communicate with others (host, presenter, anchor) during performance.
- 2Communication from members of the public to the makers of a broadcast transmission while it is happening.
Etymology
Deverbal from talk back.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).