aspartic
/æsˈpɑːtik/
"aspartic" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aspartic” is uncommon English (frequency #92,353 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,353
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to aspartic acid or its derivatives
Corpus desk
Index EN-aspartic · aspartic · English
aspartic · rank #92,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,353
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Asaf
Nearest frequency peer: Asaf (-2 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 “aspartic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- artless
artless
7,651 corpus weight
- Asaf
Asaf
7,650 corpus weight
- aspartic
aspartic
7,648 corpus weight
- Atterbury
Atterbury
7,646 corpus weight
- Axios
Axios
7,645 corpus weight
- axolotl
axolotl
7,644 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aspartic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspartic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /æsˈpɑːtik/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aspartic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aspartic is uncommon English at frequency #92,353 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /æsˈpɑːtik/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to aspartic acid or its derivatives".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aspartic, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Formed irregularly from asparagine, possibly an arbitrary formation; see -ic. The correct English form is aspartic, spelled A-S-P-A-R-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to aspartic acid or its derivatives
Etymology
Formed irregularly from asparagine, possibly an arbitrary formation; see -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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