televise
/ˈtɛləvaɪz/
"televise" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“televise” is uncommon English (frequency #73,703 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,703
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To broadcast, or be broadcast, by television.
Corpus desk
Index EN-televise · televise · English
televise · rank #73,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,703
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Teasdale
Nearest frequency peer: Teasdale (-4 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “televise”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- TDK
TDK
26,304 corpus weight
- Teasdale
Teasdale
26,302 corpus weight
- televise
televise
26,298 corpus weight
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terrifically
26,294 corpus weight
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terroristic
26,293 corpus weight
- testbed
testbed
26,292 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “televise” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | televise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈtɛləvaɪz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “televise” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
televise is uncommon English at frequency #73,703 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈtɛləvaɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To broadcast, or be broadcast, by television.".
Zero misspellings are on record for televise in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Back-formation from television. The correct English form is televise, spelled T-E-L-E-V-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1To broadcast, or be broadcast, by television.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how televise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was one of the first major events to be televised.
Etymology
Back-formation from television.
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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