touchpad
/ˈtʌt͡ʃˌpæd/
"touchpad" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“touchpad” is uncommon English (frequency #53,917 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,917
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-touchpad · touchpad · English
touchpad · rank #53,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,917
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Trajan
Nearest frequency peer: Trajan (+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 “touchpad”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tippy
tippy
46,087 corpus weight
- tix
tix
46,086 corpus weight
- touchpad
touchpad
46,084 corpus weight
- Trajan
Trajan
46,083 corpus weight
- trapdoor
trapdoor
46,082 corpus weight
- tricolor
tricolor
46,081 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “touchpad” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | touchpad |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtʌt͡ʃˌpæd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “touchpad” in English
Rare enough to double-check
touchpad is uncommon English at frequency #53,917 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtʌt͡ʃˌpæd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for touchpad, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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: From touch + pad. The correct English form is touchpad, spelled T-O-U-C-H-P-A-D.
Definition
- 1A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.
Etymology
From touch + pad.
Synonyms
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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