atropine
/ˈa.tɹə.piːn/
"atropine" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“atropine” is uncommon English (frequency #52,159 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,159
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources, such as the seeds of the thorn-apple. Though overdoses would be fatal it is used as a drug in medicine ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-atropine · atropine · English
atropine · rank #52,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,159
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH athenaeum
Nearest frequency peer: athenaeum (-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 “atropine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- astringent
astringent
47,845 corpus weight
- Atalanta
Atalanta
47,844 corpus weight
- athenaeum
athenaeum
47,843 corpus weight
- atropine
atropine
47,842 corpus weight
- attentively
attentively
47,841 corpus weight
- Auvergne
Auvergne
47,840 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “atropine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atropine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈa.tɹə.piːn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “atropine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
atropine is uncommon English at frequency #52,159 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈa.tɹə.piːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources, such as the seeds of the thorn-apple. Though overdoses would be fatal it is used as a drug in medicine ...".
atropine has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Atropa (“genus of deadly nightshade”) + -ine. The correct English form is atropine, spelled A-T-R-O-P-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources, such as the seeds of the thorn-apple. Though overdoses would be fatal it is used as a drug in medicine for its paralytic effects (e.g. in surgery to relax muscles, in dentistry to dry the mouth, in ophthalmology to dilate the pupils).
Etymology
From Latin Atropa (“genus of deadly nightshade”) + -ine.
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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