detoxicate

verb

"detoxicate" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“detoxicate” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To remove poison (or its effects) from.

Corpus desk

Index EN-detoxicate · detoxicate · English

detoxicate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for detoxicate
PropertyValue
Headworddetoxicate
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “detoxicate” in English

detoxicateranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

detoxicate is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

detoxicate doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From de- + toxic + -ate (verb-forming suffix). The correct English form is detoxicate, spelled D-E-T-O-X-I-C-A-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    To remove poison (or its effects) from.
  2. 2
    To counteract, or make less poisonous.

Etymology

From de- + toxic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "detoxicate"?
"detoxicate" is spelled D-E-T-O-X-I-C-A-T-E.
What does "detoxicate" mean?
As a verb, "detoxicate" means: To remove poison (or its effects) from.
What is the origin of the word "detoxicate"?
From de- + toxic + -ate (verb-forming suffix). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list