technical college
"technical-college" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“technical college” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A college of further education providing classes and courses in a range of practical subjects, such as information technology, applied sciences, engineering, agriculture, and secretarial skills.
Corpus desk
Index EN-technical-college · technical college · English
technical college · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | technical college |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “technical college” in English
Rare enough to double-check
technical college is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A college of further education providing classes and courses in a range of practical subjects, such as information technology, applied sciences, engineering, agriculture, and secretarial skills.".
Zero misspellings are on record for technical college in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is technical college, spelled T-E-C-H-N-I-C-A-L- -C-O-L-L-E-G-E.
Definition
- 1A college of further education providing classes and courses in a range of practical subjects, such as information technology, applied sciences, engineering, agriculture, and secretarial skills.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how technical college appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.