fasciitis
/fæʃiˈaɪtɪs/
"fasciitis" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fasciitis” is uncommon English (frequency #69,847 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,847
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation of the fascia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fasciitis · fasciitis · English
fasciitis · rank #69,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,847
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fazed
Nearest frequency peer: fazed (+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 “fasciitis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- expensively
expensively
30,162 corpus weight
- fasciitis
fasciitis
30,154 corpus weight
- fazed
fazed
30,153 corpus weight
- Fenech
Fenech
30,151 corpus weight
- figo
figo
30,149 corpus weight
- fingerboard
fingerboard
30,148 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fasciitis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fasciitis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fæʃiˈaɪtɪs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fasciitis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fasciitis is uncommon English at frequency #69,847 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fæʃiˈaɪtɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation of the fascia.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fasciitis in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fascia + -itis. The correct English form is fasciitis, spelled F-A-S-C-I-I-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Inflammation of the fascia.
Etymology
From fascia + -itis.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).