ascorbate
/əsˈkɔː(ɹ)beɪt/
"ascorbate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ascorbate” is uncommon English (frequency #94,535 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,535
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any salt or ester of ascorbic acid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ascorbate · ascorbate · English
ascorbate · rank #94,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,535
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Ashbrook
Nearest frequency peer: Ashbrook (+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 “ascorbate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- artha
artha
5,469 corpus weight
- artificiali…
artificiality
5,468 corpus weight
- ascorbate
ascorbate
5,466 corpus weight
- Ashbrook
Ashbrook
5,465 corpus weight
- Ashlyn
Ashlyn
5,464 corpus weight
- ashman
ashman
5,463 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ascorbate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ascorbate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əsˈkɔː(ɹ)beɪt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ascorbate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ascorbate is uncommon English at frequency #94,535 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əsˈkɔː(ɹ)beɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any salt or ester of ascorbic acid.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ascorbate, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ascorb(ic acid) + -ate. The correct English form is ascorbate, spelled A-S-C-O-R-B-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Any salt or ester of ascorbic acid.
Etymology
From ascorb(ic acid) + -ate.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).