diverticulitis
"diverticulitis" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“diverticulitis” is uncommon English (frequency #84,177 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,177
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An infection of the diverticulum.
Corpus desk
Index EN-diverticulitis · diverticulitis · English
diverticulitis · rank #84,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,177
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dismally
Nearest frequency peer: dismally (-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 “diverticulitis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Dimond
Dimond
15,829 corpus weight
- disequilibr…
disequilibrium
15,828 corpus weight
- disgraceful…
disgracefully
15,827 corpus weight
- dismally
dismally
15,825 corpus weight
- diverticuli…
diverticulitis
15,824 corpus weight
- Donegan
Donegan
15,819 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “diverticulitis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “diverticulitis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
diverticulitis is uncommon English at frequency #84,177 among 3,470 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diverticulitis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He had a slight fever and thought he had appendicitis. So did his doctor, who sent him to the emergency room, where an M.R.I. revealed not appendicitis but diverticulitis, an infection in an outpouching of his colon he never knew he had.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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