exocytosis
"exocytosis" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exocytosis” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The secretion of substances through cellular membranes, either to excrete waste products or as a regulatory function.
Corpus desk
Index EN-exocytosis · exocytosis · English
exocytosis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exocytosis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “exocytosis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exocytosis is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The secretion of substances through cellular membranes, either to excrete waste products or as a regulatory function.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for exocytosis, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From exo- + -cytosis. The correct English form is exocytosis, spelled E-X-O-C-Y-T-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1The secretion of substances through cellular membranes, either to excrete waste products or as a regulatory function.
Etymology
From exo- + -cytosis.
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.