dextrose
/ˈdɛkstɹəʊz/
"dextrose" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dextrose” is uncommon English (frequency #65,829 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,829
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.
| 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) |
Where “dextrose” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dextrose is uncommon English at frequency #65,829 among 26,416 “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.
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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Using “dextrose”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-E-X-T-R-O-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.