antitoxin
"antitoxin" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“antitoxin” is uncommon English (frequency #87,020 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,020
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-antitoxin · antitoxin · English
antitoxin · rank #87,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,020
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Antonelli
Nearest frequency peer: Antonelli (+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 “antitoxin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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12,987 corpus weight
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antitoxin
12,981 corpus weight
- Antonelli
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12,980 corpus weight
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12,979 corpus weight
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12,976 corpus weight
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12,975 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “antitoxin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antitoxin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “antitoxin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
antitoxin is uncommon English at frequency #87,020 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for antitoxin, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From anti- + toxin. The correct English form is antitoxin, spelled A-N-T-I-T-O-X-I-N.
Definition
- 1A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
- 2An antibody capable of neutralizing specific toxins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how antitoxin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Through the needle-hole thus stained with dye it was possible to "superinject" antitoxin, using a slightly wider needle avoid back leak along the old needle track, and thus to ensure a distribution of both toxin and antitoxin solutions from the same point the skin.
These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificia…
Etymology
From anti- + toxin.
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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