eclampsia
/ɪˈklæmp.si.ə/
"eclampsia" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eclampsia” is uncommon English (frequency #57,998 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,998
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension.
Corpus desk
Index EN-eclampsia · eclampsia · English
eclampsia · rank #57,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,998
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH ecchi
Nearest frequency peer: ecchi (-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 “eclampsia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- earthworm
earthworm
42,008 corpus weight
- ebbing
ebbing
42,007 corpus weight
- ecchi
ecchi
42,005 corpus weight
- eclampsia
eclampsia
42,003 corpus weight
- employable
employable
42,001 corpus weight
- Encino
Encino
42,000 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “eclampsia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eclampsia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪˈklæmp.si.ə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “eclampsia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
eclampsia is uncommon English at frequency #57,998 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɪˈklæmp.si.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension.".
No misspelling variants are generated for eclampsia in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from New Latin eclampsia, from French éclampsie, from Ancient Greek ἔκλᾰμψῐς (éklămpsĭs, “sudden development, violent onset”, literally “brightness”), from ἐκλᾰ́μπω (eklắmpō, “to shine or beam forth; to burst forth violently”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, nominal… The correct English form is eclampsia, spelled E-C-L-A-M-P-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension.
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin eclampsia, from French éclampsie, from Ancient Greek ἔκλᾰμψῐς (éklămpsĭs, “sudden development, violent onset”, literally “brightness”), from ἐκλᾰ́μπω (eklắmpō, “to shine or beam forth; to burst forth violently”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, nominal suffix).
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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