atresia
"atresia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“atresia” is uncommon English (frequency #90,161 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,161
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A condition in which a body orifice or passage in the body is abnormally closed or absent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-atresia · atresia · English
atresia · rank #90,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,161
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Asya
Nearest frequency peer: Asya (-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 “atresia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Astarte
Astarte
9,845 corpus weight
- astrobiology
astrobiology
9,843 corpus weight
- Asya
Asya
9,842 corpus weight
- atresia
atresia
9,840 corpus weight
- avaricious
avaricious
9,838 corpus weight
- awf
awf
9,834 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “atresia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atresia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “atresia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
atresia is uncommon English at frequency #90,161 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A condition in which a body orifice or passage in the body is abnormally closed or absent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for atresia, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin atresia, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not, without”) and τρῆσις (trêsis, “perforation”). The correct English form is atresia, spelled A-T-R-E-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1A condition in which a body orifice or passage in the body is abnormally closed or absent.
Etymology
From Latin atresia, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not, without”) and τρῆσις (trêsis, “perforation”).
Synonyms
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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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