carcinoid
"carcinoid" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carcinoid” is uncommon English (frequency #95,796 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,796
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A form of slow-growing tumour originating in the neuroendocrine system.
Corpus desk
Index EN-carcinoid · carcinoid · English
carcinoid · rank #95,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,796
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH caracal
Nearest frequency peer: caracal (-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 “carcinoid”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Camra
Camra
4,210 corpus weight
- caracal
caracal
4,206 corpus weight
- carcinoid
carcinoid
4,205 corpus weight
- carinae
carinae
4,204 corpus weight
- Carinthia
Carinthia
4,203 corpus weight
- carload
carload
4,202 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “carcinoid” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carcinoid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “carcinoid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
carcinoid is uncommon English at frequency #95,796 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A form of slow-growing tumour originating in the neuroendocrine system.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carcinoid, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From carcino- + -oid. The correct English form is carcinoid, spelled C-A-R-C-I-N-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1A form of slow-growing tumour originating in the neuroendocrine system.
Etymology
From carcino- + -oid.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).