technocrat
/ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/
"technocrat" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“technocrat” is uncommon English (frequency #86,839 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,839
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An advocate of technocracy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-technocrat · technocrat · English
technocrat · rank #86,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,839
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH technocracy
Nearest frequency peer: technocracy (-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 “technocrat”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- teasingly
teasingly
13,165 corpus weight
- Tebbit
Tebbit
13,164 corpus weight
- technocracy
technocracy
13,163 corpus weight
- technocrat
technocrat
13,162 corpus weight
- teel
teel
13,161 corpus weight
- Tehachapi
Tehachapi
13,160 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “technocrat” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | technocrat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “technocrat” in English
Rare enough to double-check
technocrat is uncommon English at frequency #86,839 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
technocrat has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Back-formation from technocracy, equivalent to techno- + -crat. The correct English form is technocrat, spelled T-E-C-H-N-O-C-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1An advocate of technocracy.
- 2An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.
- 3A person who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how technocrat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Another by now trusted technocrat, d'Aguesseau, returned as Chancellor, initiating down to his death in 1751 landmark judicial reforms.
Would the site’s community of decentralized, uncompensated editors continue to govern it according to its principles of openness, transparency, and neutrality, or would a handful of highly paid NGO technocrats re-orient Wikipedia toward endorsing and promoting the ever-shifting currents of the Western elite social justice regime?
Etymology
Back-formation from technocracy, equivalent to techno- + -crat.
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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