allelic
/əˈliːlɪk/
"allelic" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“allelic” is uncommon English (frequency #92,324 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,324
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to alleles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-allelic · allelic · English
allelic · rank #92,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,324
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Alleghany
Nearest frequency peer: Alleghany (-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 “allelic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Albertus
Albertus
7,682 corpus weight
- Alita
Alita
7,679 corpus weight
- Alleghany
Alleghany
7,678 corpus weight
- allelic
allelic
7,677 corpus weight
- allosteric
allosteric
7,675 corpus weight
- allusive
allusive
7,673 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “allelic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allelic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈliːlɪk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “allelic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
allelic is uncommon English at frequency #92,324 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /əˈliːlɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for allelic, 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From allele + -ic. The correct English form is allelic, spelled A-L-L-E-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to alleles.
- 2Of or pertaining to alleles of the same gene.
Etymology
From allele + -ic.
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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