coagulant
"coagulant" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coagulant” is uncommon English (frequency #91,365 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,365
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - That causes coagulation or that coagulates.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coagulant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coagulant” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
coagulant is uncommon English at frequency #91,365 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That causes coagulation or that coagulates.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coagulant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin coagulans, present participle of coāgulō (“to thicken”). The correct English form is coagulant, spelled C-O-A-G-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1That causes coagulation or that coagulates.
Etymology
From Latin coagulans, present participle of coāgulō (“to thicken”).
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 “coagulant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-A-G-U-L-A-N-T - 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.