cathodic
"cathodic" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cathodic” is uncommon English (frequency #97,919 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,919
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proceeding from a nerve centre; efferent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cathodic · cathodic · English
cathodic · rank #97,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,919
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH catenary
Nearest frequency peer: catenary (-2 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 “cathodic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- carom
carom
2,091 corpus weight
- catabolic
catabolic
2,086 corpus weight
- catenary
catenary
2,084 corpus weight
- cathodic
cathodic
2,082 corpus weight
- ceilinged
ceilinged
2,080 corpus weight
- chancy
chancy
2,074 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cathodic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cathodic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cathodic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cathodic is uncommon English at frequency #97,919 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cathodic, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cathode + -ic. Coined by William Whewell in 1837 in a letter to Michael Faraday. The correct English form is cathodic, spelled C-A-T-H-O-D-I-C.
Definition
- 1Proceeding from a nerve centre; efferent.
- 2Relating to, functioning as, or occurring at a cathode.
Etymology
From cathode + -ic. Coined by William Whewell in 1837 in a letter to Michael Faraday.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).