teleprompter
/ˈtɛləˌpɹɑmptəɹ/
"teleprompter" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“teleprompter” is uncommon English (frequency #53,295 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,295
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teleprompter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɛləˌpɹɑmptəɹ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #53,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “teleprompter” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
teleprompter is uncommon English at frequency #53,295 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtɛləˌpɹɑmptəɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.".
teleprompter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tele- + prompter; genericized trademark, originally styled TelePrompTer. The correct English form is teleprompter, spelled T-E-L-E-P-R-O-M-P-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.
Etymology
From tele- + prompter; genericized trademark, originally styled TelePrompTer.
Synonyms
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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 “teleprompter”
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- The one correct English spelling is T-E-L-E-P-R-O-M-P-T-E-R - 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.