duodenal
/ˌduəˈdinəl/
"duodenal" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“duodenal” is uncommon English (frequency #80,404 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,404
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-duodenal · duodenal · English
duodenal · rank #80,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,404
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drunker
Nearest frequency peer: drunker (-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 “duodenal”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- drownings
drownings
19,600 corpus weight
- drumline
drumline
19,599 corpus weight
- drunker
drunker
19,598 corpus weight
- duodenal
duodenal
19,597 corpus weight
- Dupuy
Dupuy
19,595 corpus weight
- dural
dural
19,594 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “duodenal” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duodenal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌduəˈdinəl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “duodenal” in English
Rare enough to double-check
duodenal is uncommon English at frequency #80,404 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌduəˈdinəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for duodenal, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From duoden- + -al. The correct English form is duodenal, spelled D-U-O-D-E-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.
Etymology
From duoden- + -al.
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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