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 September 3, 2026) - A device for converting wind power into electricity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wind-turbine · wind turbine · English
wind turbine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wind turbine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wind turbine” in English
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wind turbine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now there is another subject in which Donald Trump’s expert knowledge surpasses that of everybody else: wind turbines, though he calls them windmills.
“These wind turbines will help preserve the forest by generating electricity sustainably,” said Paschold. “If we keep spewing CO₂ and contaminating our atmosphere, there won’t be much of it left.”
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.