appendectomy
"appendectomy" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“appendectomy” is uncommon English (frequency #65,692 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,692
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The surgical procedure for the removal of the vermiform appendix.
Corpus desk
Index EN-appendectomy · appendectomy · English
appendectomy · rank #65,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,692
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH appallingly
Nearest frequency peer: appallingly (-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 “appendectomy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- AoE
AoE
34,311 corpus weight
- appallingly
appallingly
34,310 corpus weight
- appendectomy
appendectomy
34,309 corpus weight
- applet
applet
34,308 corpus weight
- arachnid
arachnid
34,307 corpus weight
- Arbuckle
Arbuckle
34,305 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “appendectomy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appendectomy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #65,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “appendectomy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
appendectomy is uncommon English at frequency #65,692 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The surgical procedure for the removal of the vermiform appendix.".
No misspelling variants are generated for appendectomy in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From appendix + -ectomy. The correct English form is appendectomy, spelled A-P-P-E-N-D-E-C-T-O-M-Y.
Definition
- 1The surgical procedure for the removal of the vermiform appendix.
Etymology
From appendix + -ectomy.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).