carotenoid
/kəˈɹɒtɪˌnɔɪd/
"carotenoid" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“carotenoid” is uncommon English (frequency #88,180 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,180
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of a class of yellow to red organic pigments including the carotenes and xanthophylls.
Corpus desk
Index EN-carotenoid · carotenoid · English
carotenoid · rank #88,180 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,180
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cargos
Nearest frequency peer: cargos (-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 “carotenoid”
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 “carotenoid” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carotenoid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈɹɒtɪˌnɔɪd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “carotenoid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
carotenoid is uncommon English at frequency #88,180 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəˈɹɒtɪˌnɔɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of a class of yellow to red organic pigments including the carotenes and xanthophylls.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carotenoid, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From carotene + -oid. The correct English form is carotenoid, spelled C-A-R-O-T-E-N-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1Any of a class of yellow to red organic pigments including the carotenes and xanthophylls.
Etymology
From carotene + -oid.
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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