cardiac muscle
/ˌkɑːr.di.æk ˈmʌs.əl/
"cardiac-muscle" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cardiac muscle” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The striated and involuntary muscle of the vertebrate heart.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cardiac-muscle · cardiac muscle · English
cardiac muscle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardiac muscle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌkɑːr.di.æk ˈmʌs.əl/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cardiac muscle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cardiac muscle is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌkɑːr.di.æk ˈmʌs.əl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The striated and involuntary muscle of the vertebrate heart.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cardiac muscle, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cardiac muscle, spelled C-A-R-D-I-A-C- -M-U-S-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1The striated and involuntary muscle of the vertebrate heart.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.