alexia
/əˈlɛk.si.ə/
"alexia" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alexia” is uncommon English (frequency #52,766 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,766
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alexia · alexia · English
alexia · rank #52,766 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,766
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Aleutian
Nearest frequency peer: Aleutian (-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 “alexia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Airdrie
Airdrie
47,240 corpus weight
- airmail
airmail
47,239 corpus weight
- alchemical
alchemical
47,237 corpus weight
- Aleutian
Aleutian
47,236 corpus weight
- alexia
alexia
47,235 corpus weight
- anatomic
anatomic
47,230 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alexia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alexia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈlɛk.si.ə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alexia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alexia is uncommon English at frequency #52,766 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈlɛk.si.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.".
No misspelling variants are generated for alexia in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + -ia. The correct English form is alexia, spelled A-L-E-X-I-A.
Definition
- 1The inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + -ia.
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); 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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