ductility
/dʌkˈtɪlɪdi/
"ductility" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ductility” is uncommon English (frequency #85,200 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,200
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ductility · ductility · English
ductility · rank #85,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,200
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dubiously
Nearest frequency peer: dubiously (-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 “ductility”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- drydock
drydock
14,805 corpus weight
- dubiously
dubiously
14,802 corpus weight
- ductility
ductility
14,801 corpus weight
- dukedom
dukedom
14,799 corpus weight
- dulcet
dulcet
14,798 corpus weight
- Dunston
Dunston
14,797 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ductility” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ductility |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dʌkˈtɪlɪdi/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ductility” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ductility is uncommon English at frequency #85,200 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dʌkˈtɪlɪdi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.".
ductility doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ductile + -ity. The correct English form is ductility, spelled D-U-C-T-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.
Etymology
From ductile + -ity.
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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