analgesia
/ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/
"analgesia" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“analgesia” is uncommon English (frequency #61,265 among 35,202 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,265
- frequency rank, English
- 35,202
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The inability to feel pain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | analgesia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “analgesia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
analgesia is uncommon English at frequency #61,265 among 35,202 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for analgesia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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 New Latin analgēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā, “want of feeling, insensibility”), from ἀνάλγητος (análgētos), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἀλγέω (algéō, “feel bodily pain, suffer”) + -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix). The correct English form is analgesia, spelled A-N-A-L-G-E-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1The inability to feel pain.
- 2A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service.
- 3A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.
Etymology
From New Latin analgēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā, “want of feeling, insensibility”), from ἀνάλγητος (análgētos), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἀλγέω (algéō, “feel bodily pain, suffer”) + -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix).
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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Using “analgesia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-N-A-L-G-E-S-I-A - 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.