endocytosis
/ˌɛndəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs/
"endocytosis" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“endocytosis” is an uncommon English word, ranked #72,276 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #72,276
- frequency rank, English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The process by which the plasma membrane of a cell folds inwards to ingest material.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endocytosis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɛndəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “endocytosis” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for endocytosis is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌɛndəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #72,276 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The process by which the plasma membrane of a cell folds inwards to ingest material.".
Zero misspellings are on record for endocytosis in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 endocytosis, spelled E-N-D-O-C-Y-T-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1The process by which the plasma membrane of a cell folds inwards to ingest material.
Antonyms
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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Using “endocytosis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-N-D-O-C-Y-T-O-S-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌɛndəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.