dysphagia
/dɪsˈfeɪ̯d͡ʒ(i)ə/
"dysphagia" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dysphagia” is uncommon English (frequency #77,625 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,625
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Difficulty in swallowing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dysphagia · dysphagia · English
dysphagia · rank #77,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,625
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Duras
Nearest frequency peer: Duras (-2 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 “dysphagia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- driveshaft
driveshaft
22,382 corpus weight
- dually
dually
22,381 corpus weight
- Duolingo
Duolingo
22,379 corpus weight
- Duras
Duras
22,378 corpus weight
- dysphagia
dysphagia
22,376 corpus weight
- ebullient
ebullient
22,373 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dysphagia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dysphagia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪsˈfeɪ̯d͡ʒ(i)ə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dysphagia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dysphagia is uncommon English at frequency #77,625 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɪsˈfeɪ̯d͡ʒ(i)ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Difficulty in swallowing.".
dysphagia has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dys- + -phagia. The correct English form is dysphagia, spelled D-Y-S-P-H-A-G-I-A.
Definition
- 1Difficulty in swallowing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dysphagia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If the sensory branches of the laryngeal nerve (superior laryngeal nerve) are paralysed, the danger is great, for the patients, owing to the abolished reflex action, are prone to misswallow (dysphagia) , and become subject to "foreign body pneumonia."
Etymology
From dys- + -phagia.
Synonyms
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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