vocoder
"vocoder" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vocoder” is uncommon English (frequency #98,869 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,869
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several electronic or digital devices or systems for the analysis or synthesis of speech.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vocoder · vocoder · English
vocoder · rank #98,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,869
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH volitional
Nearest frequency peer: volitional (+2 rank slots)
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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 “vocoder”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- verdigris
verdigris
1,139 corpus weight
- videoed
videoed
1,137 corpus weight
- Villars
Villars
1,135 corpus weight
- vocoder
vocoder
1,132 corpus weight
- volitional
volitional
1,130 corpus weight
- VPD
VPD
1,129 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vocoder” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vocoder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vocoder” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
vocoder is uncommon English at frequency #98,869 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several electronic or digital devices or systems for the analysis or synthesis of speech.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vocoder, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of voice + coder. The correct English form is vocoder, spelled V-O-C-O-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Any of several electronic or digital devices or systems for the analysis or synthesis of speech.
Etymology
Blend of voice + coder.
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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