contusion
/kənˈtjuːʒən/
"contusion" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“contusion” is uncommon English (frequency #56,025 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,025
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of bruise.
Corpus desk
Index EN-contusion · contusion · English
contusion · rank #56,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,025
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Corsican
Nearest frequency peer: Corsican (+3 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 “contusion”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- codification
codification
43,983 corpus weight
- codon
codon
43,982 corpus weight
- Coetzee
Coetzee
43,981 corpus weight
- contusion
contusion
43,976 corpus weight
- Corsican
Corsican
43,973 corpus weight
- cortina
cortina
43,972 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “contusion” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contusion |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kənˈtjuːʒən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “contusion” in English
Rare enough to double-check
contusion is uncommon English at frequency #56,025 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kənˈtjuːʒən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contusion, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French contusion, from Latin contūsiōnem, accusative singular of contūsiō, from contūsus, past participle of contundō (“to beat”), from com- + tundō (“to beat”). The correct English form is contusion, spelled C-O-N-T-U-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Synonym of bruise.
- 2Synonym of bruising.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French contusion, from Latin contūsiōnem, accusative singular of contūsiō, from contūsus, past participle of contundō (“to beat”), from com- + tundō (“to beat”).
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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