authorial
"authorial" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“authorial” is uncommon English (frequency #66,479 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,479
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, coming from, or typical of an author (especially of books)
Corpus desk
Index EN-authorial · authorial · English
authorial · rank #66,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,479
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Aurobindo
Nearest frequency peer: Aurobindo (-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 “authorial”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Atal
Atal
33,527 corpus weight
- Athlone
Athlone
33,526 corpus weight
- attentivene…
attentiveness
33,525 corpus weight
- Aurobindo
Aurobindo
33,523 corpus weight
- authorial
authorial
33,522 corpus weight
- Avraham
Avraham
33,520 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “authorial” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | authorial |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “authorial” in English
Rare enough to double-check
authorial is uncommon English at frequency #66,479 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, coming from, or typical of an author (especially of books)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for authorial, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From author + -ial. The correct English form is authorial, spelled A-U-T-H-O-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of, coming from, or typical of an author (especially of books)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how authorial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But no, you have an authorial obligation to determine that this rock is not magical.
Etymology
From author + -ial.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).