atrazine
/ˈætrəziːn/
"atrazine" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“atrazine” is an uncommon English word, ranked #95,704 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #95,704
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A triazine herbicide that inhibits photosynthesis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atrazine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈætrəziːn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “atrazine” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for atrazine is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈætrəziːn/. Corpus data places it at rank #95,704 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A triazine herbicide that inhibits photosynthesis.".
Zero misspellings are on record for atrazine in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is atrazine, spelled A-T-R-A-Z-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A triazine herbicide that inhibits photosynthesis.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-T-R-A-Z-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.