cannibalized
"cannibalized" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cannibalized” is uncommon English (frequency #92,429 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,429
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patched together from pieces taken from elsewhere.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cannibalized · cannibalized · English
cannibalized · rank #92,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,429
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Canales
Nearest frequency peer: Canales (-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 “cannibalized”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- calfskin
calfskin
7,575 corpus weight
- Canales
Canales
7,573 corpus weight
- cannibalized
cannibalized
7,572 corpus weight
- Capernaum
Capernaum
7,571 corpus weight
- carabao
carabao
7,570 corpus weight
- carioca
carioca
7,569 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cannibalized” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cannibalized |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #92,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cannibalized” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cannibalized is uncommon English at frequency #92,429 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Patched together from pieces taken from elsewhere.".
cannibalized doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is cannibalized, spelled C-A-N-N-I-B-A-L-I-Z-E-D.
Definition
- 1Patched together from pieces taken from elsewhere.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cannibalized appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
cannibalized version of the events
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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