telepath
"telepath" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“telepath” is uncommon English (frequency #82,845 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,845
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them. Telepaths also have the ability to project thought.
Corpus desk
Index EN-telepath · telepath · English
telepath · rank #82,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,845
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tendonitis
Nearest frequency peer: tendonitis (+2 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 “telepath”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tapa
tapa
17,160 corpus weight
- telepath
telepath
17,156 corpus weight
- tendonitis
tendonitis
17,154 corpus weight
- Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan
17,153 corpus weight
- terrorise
terrorise
17,152 corpus weight
- testator
testator
17,151 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “telepath” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “telepath” in English
Rare enough to double-check
telepath is uncommon English at frequency #82,845 among 3,151 “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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).