diverticulitis
"diverticulitis" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“diverticulitis” is uncommon English (frequency #84,177 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,177
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An infection of the diverticulum.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diverticulitis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #84,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “diverticulitis” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
diverticulitis is uncommon English at frequency #84,177 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An infection of the diverticulum.".
diverticulitis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is diverticulitis, spelled D-I-V-E-R-T-I-C-U-L-I-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1An infection of the diverticulum.
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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- The one correct English spelling is D-I-V-E-R-T-I-C-U-L-I-T-I-S - 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.