agalactorrhea

noun

"agalactorrhea" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“agalactorrhea” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The failure of a mother (human or otherwise) to produce sufficient milk following birth.

Corpus desk

Index EN-agalactorrhea · agalactorrhea · English

agalactorrhea · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for agalactorrhea
PropertyValue
Headwordagalactorrhea
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “agalactorrhea” in English

agalactorrheasits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

agalactorrhea is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The failure of a mother (human or otherwise) to produce sufficient milk following birth.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for agalactorrhea, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Etymologically, the entry records: From a- + galactorrhea. The correct English form is agalactorrhea, spelled A-G-A-L-A-C-T-O-R-R-H-E-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    The failure of a mother (human or otherwise) to produce sufficient milk following birth.

Etymology

From a- + galactorrhea.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agalactorrhea"?
"agalactorrhea" is spelled A-G-A-L-A-C-T-O-R-R-H-E-A.
What does "agalactorrhea" mean?
As a noun, "agalactorrhea" means: The failure of a mother (human or otherwise) to produce sufficient milk following birth.
What is the origin of the word "agalactorrhea"?
From a- + galactorrhea. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list