ecclesiastic
/ɪˌkliː.ziˈæs.tɪk/
"ecclesiastic" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ecclesiastic” is uncommon English (frequency #74,050 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,050
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ecclesiastic · ecclesiastic · English
ecclesiastic · rank #74,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,050
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH EBM
Nearest frequency peer: EBM (-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 “ecclesiastic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Duracell
Duracell
25,955 corpus weight
- durbar
durbar
25,954 corpus weight
- Eakin
Eakin
25,953 corpus weight
- EBM
EBM
25,952 corpus weight
- ecclesiastic
ecclesiastic
25,951 corpus weight
- Edda
Edda
25,949 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ecclesiastic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ecclesiastic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪˌkliː.ziˈæs.tɪk/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #74,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ecclesiastic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ecclesiastic is uncommon English at frequency #74,050 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɪˌkliː.ziˈæs.tɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ecclesiastic in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English ecclesyastyke, from Late Latin ecclēsiasticus (“of the church”), from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησιαστικός (ekklēsiastikós). By surface analysis, ecclesiast + -ic. Doublet of Ecclesiasticus. The correct English form is ecclesiastic, spelled E-C-C-L-E-S-I-A-S-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical.
Etymology
From Middle English ecclesyastyke, from Late Latin ecclēsiasticus (“of the church”), from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησιαστικός (ekklēsiastikós). By surface analysis, ecclesiast + -ic. Doublet of Ecclesiasticus.
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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