capsular
"capsular" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“capsular” is uncommon English (frequency #88,177 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,177
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or resembling a capsule.
Corpus desk
Index EN-capsular · capsular · English
capsular · rank #88,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,177
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Caracalla
Nearest frequency peer: Caracalla (+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 “capsular”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- canted
canted
11,827 corpus weight
- capsular
capsular
11,824 corpus weight
- Caracalla
Caracalla
11,823 corpus weight
- cargos
cargos
11,822 corpus weight
- carotenoid
carotenoid
11,821 corpus weight
- carphone
carphone
11,820 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “capsular” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capsular |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “capsular” in English
Rare enough to double-check
capsular is uncommon English at frequency #88,177 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, pertaining to, or resembling a capsule.".
No misspelling variants are generated for capsular in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From capsule + -ar. The correct English form is capsular, spelled C-A-P-S-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or resembling a capsule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capsular appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Four muscles are destined to move the os humeri, and to strengthen the capsular ligament.
Researchers are pursuing vaccines made of capsular polysaccharide types 5 and 8, […]
Etymology
From capsule + -ar.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).