cholinergic
"cholinergic" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cholinergic” is uncommon English (frequency #72,181 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,181
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, activated by, producing or having the same function as acetylcholine.
| 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) |
Where “cholinergic” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cholinergic is uncommon English at frequency #72,181 among 43,570 “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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Using “cholinergic”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-O-L-I-N-E-R-G-I-C - 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.