astronautical
"astronautical" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“astronautical” is uncommon English (frequency #96,751 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,751
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - referring to travel in outer space
Corpus desk
Index EN-astronautical · astronautical · English
astronautical · rank #96,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,751
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Audrina
Nearest frequency peer: Audrina (+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 “astronautical”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- asci
asci
3,254 corpus weight
- ashlar
ashlar
3,252 corpus weight
- astronautic…
astronautical
3,250 corpus weight
- Audrina
Audrina
3,249 corpus weight
- auricular
auricular
3,248 corpus weight
- azan
azan
3,247 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “astronautical” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astronautical |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #96,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “astronautical” in English
Rare enough to double-check
astronautical is uncommon English at frequency #96,751 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "referring to travel in outer space".
No generated misspelling entries exist for astronautical in our index, 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 astronaut + -ical. The correct English form is astronautical, spelled A-S-T-R-O-N-A-U-T-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1referring to travel in outer space
Etymology
From astronaut + -ical.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).