brachytherapy
/ˌbɹækiˈθɛrəpi/
"brachytherapy" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brachytherapy” is uncommon English (frequency #89,180 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,180
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Radiotherapy using radioactive sources positioned within (or close to) the treatment volume, typically with radiopharmaceuticals as opposed to external-beam sources.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brachytherapy · brachytherapy · English
brachytherapy · rank #89,180 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,180
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH brach
Nearest frequency peer: brach (-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 “brachytherapy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Boudreaux
Boudreaux
10,825 corpus weight
- Boyko
Boyko
10,823 corpus weight
- brach
brach
10,822 corpus weight
- brachythera…
brachytherapy
10,821 corpus weight
- breviary
breviary
10,819 corpus weight
- Brindisi
Brindisi
10,817 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brachytherapy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brachytherapy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌbɹækiˈθɛrəpi/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #89,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brachytherapy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brachytherapy is uncommon English at frequency #89,180 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌbɹækiˈθɛrəpi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Radiotherapy using radioactive sources positioned within (or close to) the treatment volume, typically with radiopharmaceuticals as opposed to external-beam sources.".
brachytherapy has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short, not far off”) + θεραπεία (therapeía, “attendance, treatment, healing, service”); brachy- + therapy. The correct English form is brachytherapy, spelled B-R-A-C-H-Y-T-H-E-R-A-P-Y.
Definition
- 1Radiotherapy using radioactive sources positioned within (or close to) the treatment volume, typically with radiopharmaceuticals as opposed to external-beam sources.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short, not far off”) + θεραπεία (therapeía, “attendance, treatment, healing, service”); brachy- + therapy.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).