eternal life

noun

"eternal-life" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Immortality.

Corpus desk

Index EN-eternal-life · eternal life · English

eternal life · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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 eternal life
PropertyValue
Headwordeternal life
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “eternal life” in English

eternal liferanks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

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

Rare enough to double-check

eternal life is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

eternal life has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is eternal life, spelled E-T-E-R-N-A-L- -L-I-F-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Immortality.
  2. 2
    Life after death; the afterlife.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. The thing that assures us of what Jesus said is that God who gave us to Him and gave us eternal life is "more powerful than anyone else."

Synonyms

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 "eternal life"?
"eternal life" is spelled E-T-E-R-N-A-L- -L-I-F-E.
What does "eternal life" mean?
As a noun, "eternal life" means: Immortality.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list