agarose
"agarose" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“agarose” is uncommon English (frequency #88,031 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,031
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A polymeric cross-linked polysaccharide extracted from the seaweed agar; used to make gels that are used in electrophoresis.
Corpus desk
Index EN-agarose · agarose · English
agarose · rank #88,031 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,031
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adat
Nearest frequency peer: adat (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “agarose”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- accustom
accustom
11,974 corpus weight
- actualize
actualize
11,972 corpus weight
- adat
adat
11,971 corpus weight
- agarose
agarose
11,970 corpus weight
- aguayo
aguayo
11,968 corpus weight
- Ahearn
Ahearn
11,967 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “agarose” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agarose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “agarose” in English
Rare enough to double-check
agarose is uncommon English at frequency #88,031 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A polymeric cross-linked polysaccharide extracted from the seaweed agar; used to make gels that are used in electrophoresis.".
agarose doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From agar + -ose. The correct English form is agarose, spelled A-G-A-R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1A polymeric cross-linked polysaccharide extracted from the seaweed agar; used to make gels that are used in electrophoresis.
Etymology
From agar + -ose.
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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