turbojet
"turbojet" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“turbojet” is uncommon English (frequency #83,845 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,845
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A jet engine that develops thrust solely from high-speed exhaust gases expelled from a turbine that drives a compressor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-turbojet · turbojet · English
turbojet · rank #83,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,845
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH twerp
Nearest frequency peer: twerp (+3 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “turbojet”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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16,164 corpus weight
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16,163 corpus weight
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Tuchman
16,160 corpus weight
- turbojet
turbojet
16,156 corpus weight
- twerp
twerp
16,153 corpus weight
- ube
ube
16,149 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “turbojet” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turbojet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “turbojet” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
turbojet is uncommon English at frequency #83,845 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A jet engine that develops thrust solely from high-speed exhaust gases expelled from a turbine that drives a compressor.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for turbojet, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From turbo- + jet. The correct English form is turbojet, spelled T-U-R-B-O-J-E-T.
Definition
- 1A jet engine that develops thrust solely from high-speed exhaust gases expelled from a turbine that drives a compressor.
Etymology
From turbo- + jet.
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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