telepath
"telepath" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“telepath” is uncommon English (frequency #82,845 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,845
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them. Telepaths also have the ability to project thought.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | telepath |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “telepath” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
telepath is uncommon English at frequency #82,845 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them. Telepaths also have the ability to project thought.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for telepath, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From telepathy. The correct English form is telepath, spelled T-E-L-E-P-A-T-H.
Definition
- 1A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them. Telepaths also have the ability to project thought.
Etymology
From telepathy.
Synonyms
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 “telepath”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-E-L-E-P-A-T-H - 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.