conductance
"conductance" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“conductance” is uncommon English (frequency #53,456 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,456
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A measure of the ability of a body to conduct electricity; the reciprocal of its resistance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-conductance · conductance · English
conductance · rank #53,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,456
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH configurable
Nearest frequency peer: configurable (+1 rank slots)
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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 “conductance”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Collett
Collett
46,549 corpus weight
- collude
collude
46,548 corpus weight
- comparator
comparator
46,547 corpus weight
- conductance
conductance
46,545 corpus weight
- configurable
configurable
46,544 corpus weight
- conflated
conflated
46,543 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “conductance” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conductance |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “conductance” in English
Rare enough to double-check
conductance is uncommon English at frequency #53,456 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A measure of the ability of a body to conduct electricity; the reciprocal of its resistance.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for conductance in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From conduct + -ance. Coined by electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist Oliver Heaviside in 1885. The correct English form is conductance, spelled C-O-N-D-U-C-T-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1A measure of the ability of a body to conduct electricity; the reciprocal of its resistance.
Etymology
From conduct + -ance. Coined by electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist Oliver Heaviside in 1885.
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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