eating-disorder

noun

"eating-disorder" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“eating-disorder” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rare form of eating disorder.

Corpus desk

Index EN-eating-disorder · eating-disorder · English

eating-disorder · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for eating-disorder
PropertyValue
Headwordeating-disorder
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “eating-disorder” in English

eating-disorderfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

eating-disorder is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rare form of eating disorder.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for eating-disorder, 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.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is eating-disorder, spelled E-A-T-I-N-G---D-I-S-O-R-D-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rare form of eating disorder.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how eating-disorder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. While in the hospital Casey meets a “supportive” friend, Carol Link (Melanie Mayron), a teen with bulimarexia, an eating-disorder which leads her to alternately gorge herself on food and then force herself to vomit.
  2. I shall argue that the metaphor of psychic skin and the vicissitudes of that skin can particularly aid understanding some of the disturbances in early mental processes that contribute to the development of an eating-disorder. […] sustaining a notion of containing internal space, something that is often deeply problematic for those with an eating-disorder.…

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "eating-disorder"?
"eating-disorder" is spelled E-A-T-I-N-G---D-I-S-O-R-D-E-R.
What does "eating-disorder" mean?
As a noun, "eating-disorder" means: Rare form of eating disorder.
What language does "eating-disorder" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list