aflatoxin
"aflatoxin" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aflatoxin” is uncommon English (frequency #96,720 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,720
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of a family of mycotoxins, produced by molds of the Aspergillus genus, that can be toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic; typically found as contaminants of animal food or peanuts.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aflatoxin · aflatoxin · English
aflatoxin · rank #96,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,720
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH agama
Nearest frequency peer: agama (+1 rank slots)
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Long-tail ranks near “aflatoxin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- advocaat
advocaat
3,286 corpus weight
- aflatoxin
aflatoxin
3,281 corpus weight
- agama
agama
3,280 corpus weight
- agriculturi…
agriculturist
3,278 corpus weight
- Alde
Alde
3,276 corpus weight
- Allport
Allport
3,275 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aflatoxin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aflatoxin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aflatoxin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aflatoxin is uncommon English at frequency #96,720 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of a family of mycotoxins, produced by molds of the Aspergillus genus, that can be toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic; typically found as contaminants of animal food or peanuts.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aflatoxin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From (A)spergillus (fla)vus + toxin. The correct English form is aflatoxin, spelled A-F-L-A-T-O-X-I-N.
Definition
- 1Any of a family of mycotoxins, produced by molds of the Aspergillus genus, that can be toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic; typically found as contaminants of animal food or peanuts.
Etymology
From (A)spergillus (fla)vus + toxin.
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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