telecommuting
/ˈtɛləkəˌmjutɪŋ/
"telecommuting" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“telecommuting” is uncommon English (frequency #75,475 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,475
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The practice of using telecommunications technology to do one's work at a location remote from one's office, such as one's home, an Internet café, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | telecommuting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɛləkəˌmjutɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #75,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “telecommuting” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
telecommuting is uncommon English at frequency #75,475 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtɛləkəˌmjutɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The practice of using telecommunications technology to do one's work at a location remote from one's office, such as one's home, an Internet café, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for telecommuting, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tele- + commuting. The correct English form is telecommuting, spelled T-E-L-E-C-O-M-M-U-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The practice of using telecommunications technology to do one's work at a location remote from one's office, such as one's home, an Internet café, etc.
Etymology
From tele- + commuting.
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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Using “telecommuting”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-E-L-E-C-O-M-M-U-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.