timekeeping
"timekeeping" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“timekeeping” is uncommon English (frequency #64,771 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,771
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time.
Corpus desk
Index EN-timekeeping · timekeeping · English
timekeeping · rank #64,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,771
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tilak
Nearest frequency peer: tilak (-1 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 “timekeeping”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Thetford
Thetford
35,234 corpus weight
- Thorburn
Thorburn
35,233 corpus weight
- thumbing
thumbing
35,232 corpus weight
- tilak
tilak
35,231 corpus weight
- timekeeping
timekeeping
35,230 corpus weight
- Tinkerbell
Tinkerbell
35,227 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “timekeeping” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | timekeeping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “timekeeping” in English
Rare enough to double-check
timekeeping is uncommon English at frequency #64,771 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for timekeeping, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From time + keeping. The correct English form is timekeeping, spelled T-I-M-E-K-E-E-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time.
- 2The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time.
- 3The quality of being punctual, keeping to a set time.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how timekeeping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Timekeeping is better than on many Irish main lines; indeed, such delays as do occur are often attributable to late running of the Dublin-Sligo trains.
As already indicated, timekeeping is very poor. Point-to-point times are not kept, even with a clear road, and whilst fast running has never been a feature of the route because of the large number of junctions and speed restrictions, this Sunday night lethargy is hard to explain.
Etymology
From time + keeping.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).