videotaping
"videotaping" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“videotaping” is uncommon English (frequency #66,387 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,387
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A recording onto videotape.
Corpus desk
Index EN-videotaping · videotaping · English
videotaping · rank #66,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,387
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH Vico
Nearest frequency peer: Vico (-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 “videotaping”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Usha
Usha
33,621 corpus weight
- Vico
Vico
33,615 corpus weight
- videotaping
videotaping
33,614 corpus weight
- Visayas
Visayas
33,613 corpus weight
- vivisection
vivisection
33,612 corpus weight
- waitlist
waitlist
33,608 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “videotaping” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | videotaping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “videotaping” in English
Rare enough to double-check
videotaping is uncommon English at frequency #66,387 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A recording onto videotape.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for videotaping, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is videotaping, spelled V-I-D-E-O-T-A-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A recording onto videotape.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how videotaping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The campaign asks potential endorsers to sit for videotapings; hand over their organization’s mailing list; send letters to their neighbors; and write an opinion piece for newspapers praising Mr. Bloomberg.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).