time travel
"time-travel" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“time travel” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Travel to the past or to the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | time travel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “time travel” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
time travel is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for time travel in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: time + travel The correct English form is time travel, spelled T-I-M-E- -T-R-A-V-E-L.
Definition
- 1Travel to the past or to the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.
- 2The ability to access previous states of a database.
Etymology
time + travel
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 “time travel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-I-M-E- -T-R-A-V-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.