teleconference
/ˈtɛləˌkɒnfəɹəns/
"teleconference" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“teleconference” is uncommon English (frequency #64,056 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,056
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A telephone conference, an arranged phone call between more than two parties.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teleconference |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɛləˌkɒnfəɹəns/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #64,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “teleconference” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
teleconference is uncommon English at frequency #64,056 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtɛləˌkɒnfəɹəns/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for teleconference, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: A contraction of the English: telephone conference. Or, from the Greek tele- (distance) and conference. The correct English form is teleconference, spelled T-E-L-E-C-O-N-F-E-R-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1A telephone conference, an arranged phone call between more than two parties.
- 2More generally, the live exchange of information among persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system, over telephone, video or other means.
Etymology
A contraction of the English: telephone conference. Or, from the Greek tele- (distance) and conference.
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 “teleconference”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-E-L-E-C-O-N-F-E-R-E-N-C-E - 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.