turbocharger
"turbocharger" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“turbocharger” is an uncommon English word, ranked #63,326 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #63,326
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle), powered from the exhaust air.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turbocharger |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “turbocharger” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for turbocharger is 12 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #63,326 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle), powered from the exhaust air.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for turbocharger, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Contraction of turbosupercharger. The correct English form is turbocharger, spelled T-U-R-B-O-C-H-A-R-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle), powered from the exhaust air.
Etymology
Contraction of turbosupercharger.
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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Using “turbocharger”
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- The one correct English spelling is T-U-R-B-O-C-H-A-R-G-E-R - 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.