calmodulin
"calmodulin" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“calmodulin” is uncommon English (frequency #94,646 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,646
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells
Corpus desk
Index EN-calmodulin · calmodulin · English
calmodulin · rank #94,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,646
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Campagne
Nearest frequency peer: Campagne (+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 “calmodulin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- caballo
caballo
5,362 corpus weight
- Caesarian
Caesarian
5,360 corpus weight
- Cajamarca
Cajamarca
5,357 corpus weight
- calmodulin
calmodulin
5,355 corpus weight
- Campagne
Campagne
5,354 corpus weight
- canner
canner
5,349 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “calmodulin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calmodulin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “calmodulin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
calmodulin is uncommon English at frequency #94,646 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for calmodulin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is calmodulin, spelled C-A-L-M-O-D-U-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calmodulin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Two distinct anti-allergic drugs, amlexanox and cromolyn, bind to the same kinds of calcium binding proteins, except calmodulin, in bovine lung extract.
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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