cytosol
"cytosol" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cytosol” is uncommon English (frequency #67,346 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,346
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The aqueous solution of a cell's cytoplasm, consisting of water, organic molecules and inorganic ions.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cytosol · cytosol · English
cytosol · rank #67,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,346
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cush
Nearest frequency peer: cush (-2 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 “cytosol”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crystallogr…
crystallographic
32,660 corpus weight
- curvilinear
curvilinear
32,658 corpus weight
- cush
cush
32,657 corpus weight
- cytosol
cytosol
32,655 corpus weight
- daiquiri
daiquiri
32,653 corpus weight
- Dalglish
Dalglish
32,652 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cytosol” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cytosol |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cytosol” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cytosol is uncommon English at frequency #67,346 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The aqueous solution of a cell's cytoplasm, consisting of water, organic molecules and inorganic ions.".
cytosol doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cyto- + sol. The correct English form is cytosol, spelled C-Y-T-O-S-O-L.
Definition
- 1The aqueous solution of a cell's cytoplasm, consisting of water, organic molecules and inorganic ions.
Etymology
From cyto- + sol.
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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