choate
"choate" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“choate” is uncommon English (frequency #62,047 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,047
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Complete, fully formed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-choate · choate · English
choate · rank #62,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,047
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH chor
Nearest frequency peer: chor (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “choate”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Charan
Charan
37,959 corpus weight
- Charlesworth
Charlesworth
37,958 corpus weight
- Chatto
Chatto
37,957 corpus weight
- choate
choate
37,954 corpus weight
- chor
chor
37,952 corpus weight
- Claud
Claud
37,949 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “choate” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | choate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “choate” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
choate is uncommon English at frequency #62,047 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Complete, fully formed.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for choate, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: By back-formation from inchoate. The correct English form is choate, spelled C-H-O-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Complete, fully formed.
Etymology
By back-formation from inchoate.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.