cerevisiae
"cerevisiae" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cerevisiae” is uncommon English (frequency #57,287 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,287
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer's yeast.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cerevisiae · cerevisiae · English
cerevisiae · rank #57,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,287
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Centerville
Nearest frequency peer: Centerville (-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 “cerevisiae”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- causally
causally
42,719 corpus weight
- Cenozoic
Cenozoic
42,717 corpus weight
- Centerville
Centerville
42,716 corpus weight
- cerevisiae
cerevisiae
42,714 corpus weight
- CHON
CHON
42,711 corpus weight
- Chrysostom
Chrysostom
42,709 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cerevisiae” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerevisiae |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cerevisiae” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cerevisiae is uncommon English at frequency #57,287 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer's yeast.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cerevisiae, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 the specific epithet of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast). The correct English form is cerevisiae, spelled C-E-R-E-V-I-S-I-A-E.
Definition
- 1The species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer's yeast.
Etymology
From the specific epithet of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast).
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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