chloral
/ˈklɔːɹæl/
"chloral" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chloral” is uncommon English (frequency #99,101 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,101
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A colourless narcotic liquid, trichloroacetaldehyde, CCl₃CHO, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol and that, when treated with water, produces chloral hydrate.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chloral |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈklɔːɹæl/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chloral” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chloral is uncommon English at frequency #99,101 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈklɔːɹæl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A colourless narcotic liquid, trichloroacetaldehyde, CCl₃CHO, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol and that, when treated with water, produces chloral hydrate.".
chloral doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of chlorine + alcohol. The correct English form is chloral, spelled C-H-L-O-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1A colourless narcotic liquid, trichloroacetaldehyde, CCl₃CHO, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol and that, when treated with water, produces chloral hydrate.
Etymology
Blend of chlorine + alcohol.
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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Using “chloral”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-H-L-O-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.