chrysopid

noun

"chrysopid" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“chrysopid” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any species of the green lacewing family Chrysopidae.

Corpus desk

Index EN-chrysopid · chrysopid · English

chrysopid · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for chrysopid
PropertyValue
Headwordchrysopid
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “chrysopid” in English

chrysopidranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

chrysopid is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any species of the green lacewing family Chrysopidae.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chrysopid, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is chrysopid, spelled C-H-R-Y-S-O-P-I-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Any species of the green lacewing family Chrysopidae.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chrysopid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The method encouraged the chrysopids and coccinellids to lay eggs before or at the very beginning of the aphid build-up and thus prevented aphid populations from attaining damaging levels.
  2. 2007, M. Campos, Chapter 28: Lacewings in Andalusian olive orchards, P. K. McEwen, T. R. New, A. E. Whittington (editors), Lacewings in the Crop Environment, page 492, However, numerous studies have been conducted on chrysopids, given that lacewing larvae are major oophagous predators of the olive moth (Montiel Bueno, 1981; Ramos et al., 1983a, b).

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chrysopid"?
"chrysopid" is spelled C-H-R-Y-S-O-P-I-D.
What does "chrysopid" mean?
As a noun, "chrysopid" means: Any species of the green lacewing family Chrysopidae.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list