video recorder
"video-recorder" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“video recorder” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An electronic device for recording video signals, for example onto magnetic tape or videodisks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | video recorder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “video recorder” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
video recorder is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An electronic device for recording video signals, for example onto magnetic tape or videodisks.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for video recorder, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is video recorder, spelled V-I-D-E-O- -R-E-C-O-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1An electronic device for recording video signals, for example onto magnetic tape or videodisks.
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 “video recorder”
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- The one correct English spelling is V-I-D-E-O- -R-E-C-O-R-D-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.