analogical
"analogical" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“analogical” is uncommon English (frequency #94,515 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,515
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an analogy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-analogical · analogical · English
analogical · rank #94,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,515
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH amphibia
Nearest frequency peer: amphibia (-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 “analogical”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- allgood
allgood
5,490 corpus weight
- alloyed
alloyed
5,489 corpus weight
- amphibia
amphibia
5,487 corpus weight
- analogical
analogical
5,486 corpus weight
- Anning
Anning
5,478 corpus weight
- anticholine…
anticholinergic
5,477 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “analogical” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | analogical |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “analogical” in English
Rare enough to double-check
analogical is uncommon English at frequency #94,515 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an analogy.".
Zero misspellings are on record for analogical in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From analogic + -al. The correct English form is analogical, spelled A-N-A-L-O-G-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an analogy.
Etymology
From analogic + -al.
Synonyms
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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