androgenic
"androgenic" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“androgenic” is uncommon English (frequency #73,859 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,859
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, relating to, or being an androgen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-androgenic · androgenic · English
androgenic · rank #73,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,859
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anthemic
Nearest frequency peer: anthemic (+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 “androgenic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ampere
ampere
26,146 corpus weight
- amphora
amphora
26,145 corpus weight
- anagrams
anagrams
26,144 corpus weight
- androgenic
androgenic
26,142 corpus weight
- anthemic
anthemic
26,141 corpus weight
- antigenic
antigenic
26,139 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “androgenic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | androgenic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “androgenic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
androgenic is uncommon English at frequency #73,859 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, relating to, or being an androgen.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for androgenic, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From androgen + -ic. The correct English form is androgenic, spelled A-N-D-R-O-G-E-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, relating to, or being an androgen.
Etymology
From androgen + -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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