wind turbine
"wind-turbine" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wind turbine” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A device for converting wind power into electricity.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wind turbine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wind turbine” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wind turbine is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A device for converting wind power into electricity.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wind turbine, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is wind turbine, spelled W-I-N-D- -T-U-R-B-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A device for converting wind power into electricity.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “wind turbine”
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- The one correct English spelling is W-I-N-D- -T-U-R-B-I-N-E - 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.