chirality
/kaɪˈɹælɪti/
"chirality" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chirality” is uncommon English (frequency #87,137 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,137
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chirality · chirality · English
chirality · rank #87,137 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,137
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chitwood
Nearest frequency peer: Chitwood (+1 rank slots)
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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 “chirality”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Chemung
Chemung
12,870 corpus weight
- chetty
chetty
12,867 corpus weight
- chirality
chirality
12,864 corpus weight
- Chitwood
Chitwood
12,863 corpus weight
- chloroquine
chloroquine
12,862 corpus weight
- choong
choong
12,861 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chirality” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chirality |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kaɪˈɹælɪti/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chirality” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chirality is uncommon English at frequency #87,137 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kaɪˈɹælɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chirality, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From chiral + -ity = chir- + -ality. The correct English form is chirality, spelled C-H-I-R-A-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness.
Etymology
From chiral + -ity = chir- + -ality.
Synonyms
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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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