choroid
/ˈkɔː.ɹɔɪd/
"choroid" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“choroid” is uncommon English (frequency #97,939 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,939
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resembling the chorion, particularly in containing many blood vessels.
Corpus desk
Index EN-choroid · choroid · English
choroid · rank #97,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,939
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Christer
Nearest frequency peer: Christer (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “choroid”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Chaturthi
Chaturthi
2,069 corpus weight
- chey
chey
2,065 corpus weight
- choroid
choroid
2,062 corpus weight
- Christer
Christer
2,060 corpus weight
- Christlike
Christlike
2,059 corpus weight
- Christman
Christman
2,058 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “choroid” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | choroid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkɔː.ɹɔɪd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “choroid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
choroid is uncommon English at frequency #97,939 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈkɔː.ɹɔɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Resembling the chorion, particularly in containing many blood vessels.".
choroid has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From New Latin choroides, from Ancient Greek χοροειδής (khoroeidḗs, alteration of χοριοειδής (khorioeidḗs, “like the afterbirth”)), from χόριον (khórion, “membrane that encloses the fetus in the womb, afterbirth”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”). The correct English form is choroid, spelled C-H-O-R-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1Resembling the chorion, particularly in containing many blood vessels.
Etymology
From New Latin choroides, from Ancient Greek χοροειδής (khoroeidḗs, alteration of χοριοειδής (khorioeidḗs, “like the afterbirth”)), from χόριον (khórion, “membrane that encloses the fetus in the womb, afterbirth”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”).
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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