dichroic
"dichroic" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dichroic” is uncommon English (frequency #86,209 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,209
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exhibiting dichroism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dichroic · dichroic · English
dichroic · rank #86,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,209
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dimorphic
Nearest frequency peer: dimorphic (+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 “dichroic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- detent
detent
13,795 corpus weight
- dichroic
dichroic
13,792 corpus weight
- dimorphic
dimorphic
13,791 corpus weight
- disassociat…
disassociation
13,789 corpus weight
- discal
discal
13,788 corpus weight
- disconsolate
disconsolate
13,787 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dichroic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dichroic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dichroic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dichroic is uncommon English at frequency #86,209 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dichroic in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: from Ancient Greek δίχρως (díkhrōs, “two-coloured”), (from δι- (di-, “two”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “colour, complexion”)) + -ic. The correct English form is dichroic, spelled D-I-C-H-R-O-I-C.
Definition
- 1Exhibiting dichroism.
- 2Exhibiting dichromatism; dichromatic.
Etymology
from Ancient Greek δίχρως (díkhrōs, “two-coloured”), (from δι- (di-, “two”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “colour, complexion”)) + -ic.
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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