voxel
/ˈvɒk.səl/
"voxel" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“voxel” is uncommon English (frequency #64,824 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,824
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The three-dimensional analogue of a pixel; a volume element representing some numerical quantity, such as the colour, of a point in three-dimensional space, used in the visualisation and analysis o...
Corpus desk
Index EN-voxel · voxel · English
voxel · rank #64,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,824
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH Viviane
Nearest frequency peer: Viviane (-2 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 “voxel”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- veined
veined
35,182 corpus weight
- velociraptor
velociraptor
35,181 corpus weight
- viticulture
viticulture
35,180 corpus weight
- Viviane
Viviane
35,179 corpus weight
- voxel
voxel
35,177 corpus weight
- Wagstaff
Wagstaff
35,173 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “voxel” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | voxel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɒk.səl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “voxel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
voxel is uncommon English at frequency #64,824 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈvɒk.səl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The three-dimensional analogue of a pixel; a volume element representing some numerical quantity, such as the colour, of a point in three-dimensional space, used in the visualisation and analysis o...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for voxel in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of volumetric + pixel. The correct English form is voxel, spelled V-O-X-E-L.
Definition
- 1The three-dimensional analogue of a pixel; a volume element representing some numerical quantity, such as the colour, of a point in three-dimensional space, used in the visualisation and analysis of three-dimensional (especially scientific and medical) data.
Etymology
Blend of volumetric + pixel.
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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