colorimetric
"colorimetric" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“colorimetric” is uncommon English (frequency #97,955 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,955
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to colorimetry.
Corpus desk
Index EN-colorimetric · colorimetric · English
colorimetric · rank #97,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,955
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Coloma
Nearest frequency peer: Coloma (-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 “colorimetric”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cointreau
Cointreau
2,050 corpus weight
- colocation
colocation
2,048 corpus weight
- Coloma
Coloma
2,047 corpus weight
- colorimetric
colorimetric
2,046 corpus weight
- colourist
colourist
2,045 corpus weight
- comprehensi…
comprehensiveness
2,042 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “colorimetric” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colorimetric |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “colorimetric” in English
Rare enough to double-check
colorimetric is uncommon English at frequency #97,955 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for colorimetric in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From color + -metric. The correct English form is colorimetric, spelled C-O-L-O-R-I-M-E-T-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to colorimetry.
- 2Obtained by using a colorimeter.
Etymology
From color + -metric.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).