dextrose
/ˈdɛkstɹəʊz/
"dextrose" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dextrose” is uncommon English (frequency #65,829 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,829
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dextrose · dextrose · English
dextrose · rank #65,829 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,829
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dewhurst
Nearest frequency peer: Dewhurst (-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 “dextrose”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- desu
desu
34,176 corpus weight
- devaluing
devaluing
34,174 corpus weight
- Dewhurst
Dewhurst
34,173 corpus weight
- dextrose
dextrose
34,172 corpus weight
- dialectics
dialectics
34,171 corpus weight
- dichotomous
dichotomous
34,170 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dextrose” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dextrose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɛkstɹəʊz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dextrose” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dextrose is uncommon English at frequency #65,829 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɛkstɹəʊz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dextrose, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dextro- + -ose (“right-handed sugar”). The correct English form is dextrose, spelled D-E-X-T-R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dextrose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.
Etymology
From dextro- + -ose (“right-handed sugar”).
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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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