anaemic
"anaemic" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“anaemic” is an uncommon English word, ranked #72,082 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #72,082
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative spelling of anemic.
| 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) |
Where “anaemic” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for anaemic is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #72,082 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “anaemic”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-N-A-E-M-I-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.