anaemic
"anaemic" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“anaemic” is uncommon English (frequency #72,082 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,082
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of anemic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-anaemic · anaemic · English
anaemic · rank #72,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,082
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Amun
Nearest frequency peer: Amun (-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 “anaemic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- allium
allium
27,924 corpus weight
- amalgamate
amalgamate
27,923 corpus weight
- Amun
Amun
27,920 corpus weight
- anaemic
anaemic
27,919 corpus weight
- anaesthetist
anaesthetist
27,918 corpus weight
- Anthropocene
Anthropocene
27,914 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “anaemic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anaemic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “anaemic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
anaemic is uncommon English at frequency #72,082 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of anemic.".
anaemic has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is anaemic, spelled A-N-A-E-M-I-C.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of anemic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anaemic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The educated man of the twentieth century is not anaemic, languishing in a washed-out, wan vitality.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).