egotism
"egotism" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“egotism” is uncommon English (frequency #68,181 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,181
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tendency to talk excessively about oneself.
Corpus desk
Index EN-egotism · egotism · English
egotism · rank #68,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,181
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Eichel
Nearest frequency peer: Eichel (+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 “egotism”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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31,824 corpus weight
- Eckstein
Eckstein
31,822 corpus weight
- egotism
egotism
31,820 corpus weight
- Eichel
Eichel
31,819 corpus weight
- Eilish
Eilish
31,818 corpus weight
- ells
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31,817 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “egotism” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | egotism |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “egotism” in English
Rare enough to double-check
egotism is uncommon English at frequency #68,181 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for egotism in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin ego (“I”) + -t- (perhaps modelled on dogmatism, despotism, idiotism) + -ism. The correct English form is egotism, spelled E-G-O-T-I-S-M.
Definition
- 1A tendency to talk excessively about oneself.
- 2A belief that one is superior to or more important than others.
- 3The result or product of being egoistic.
- 4Egoism (belief that behavior should be directed towards one's self-interest).
Etymology
From Latin ego (“I”) + -t- (perhaps modelled on dogmatism, despotism, idiotism) + -ism.
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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