avitaminosis
"avitaminosis" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“avitaminosis” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any disease which is caused by vitamin deficiency.
Corpus desk
Index EN-avitaminosis · avitaminosis · English
avitaminosis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avitaminosis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “avitaminosis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
avitaminosis is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any disease which is caused by vitamin deficiency.".
Zero misspellings are on record for avitaminosis in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a- + vitamin + -osis. The correct English form is avitaminosis, spelled A-V-I-T-A-M-I-N-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Any disease which is caused by vitamin deficiency.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avitaminosis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Watching him, Dorrigo Evans wondered if it was avitaminosis or the combined damage of several maladies that had done this—whatever the cause, he was painfully aware that food would cure this and almost all of the afflictions he saw.
Etymology
From a- + vitamin + -osis.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.