Glossary
Data Entry Clerk Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential data entry clerk terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key data entry clerk vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in data entry clerk training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- 10-key
- Numeric keypad typing.
- Batch
- Group of records.
- Data validation
- Rules that catch bad entries.
- Double-key entry
- Entering data twice to compare.
- Error rate
- Share of mistakes.
- Field
- One data box.
- Indexing
- Tagging documents.
- KPH
- Keystrokes per hour.
- OCR
- Optical character recognition.
- PII
- Personally identifiable information.
- Record
- One complete entry.
- Source document
- Original paper or file.
- Throughput
- Volume completed.
- Verification
- Checking entries.
- WPM
- Words per minute.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Data Entry Clerk practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Data Entry Clerk training.
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