television show
"television-show" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“television show” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A live or recorded broadcast or program, or series of broadcasts or programs, meant to be viewed on television.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | television show |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “television show” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
television show is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
television show has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is television show, spelled T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-O-N- -S-H-O-W.
Definition
- 1A live or recorded broadcast or program, or series of broadcasts or programs, meant to be viewed on television.
- 2The taping of a television broadcast before a studio audience.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “television show”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-O-N- -S-H-O-W - 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.