cholinergic
"cholinergic" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cholinergic” is uncommon English (frequency #72,181 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,181
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, activated by, producing or having the same function as acetylcholine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cholinergic · cholinergic · English
cholinergic · rank #72,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,181
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chirpy
Nearest frequency peer: chirpy (-1 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 “cholinergic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chalking
chalking
27,825 corpus weight
- chapeau
chapeau
27,824 corpus weight
- chirpy
chirpy
27,821 corpus weight
- cholinergic
cholinergic
27,820 corpus weight
- choon
choon
27,819 corpus weight
- cinnabar
cinnabar
27,816 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cholinergic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cholinergic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cholinergic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cholinergic is uncommon English at frequency #72,181 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, pertaining to, activated by, producing or having the same function as acetylcholine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cholinergic in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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: From choline + -ergic. The correct English form is cholinergic, spelled C-H-O-L-I-N-E-R-G-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, activated by, producing or having the same function as acetylcholine.
Etymology
From choline + -ergic.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).