fibroid
/ˈfaɪ.brɔɪd/
"fibroid" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fibroid” is uncommon English (frequency #87,281 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,281
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A benign tumour of the uterus that is composed of either fibrous connective tissue or muscle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fibroid · fibroid · English
fibroid · rank #87,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,281
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH ferritin
Nearest frequency peer: ferritin (-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 “fibroid”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Faustian
Faustian
12,725 corpus weight
- ferritin
ferritin
12,721 corpus weight
- fibroid
fibroid
12,720 corpus weight
- FII
FII
12,716 corpus weight
- filmer
filmer
12,715 corpus weight
- fitment
fitment
12,712 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fibroid” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fibroid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfaɪ.brɔɪd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fibroid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fibroid is uncommon English at frequency #87,281 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfaɪ.brɔɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for fibroid in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fibro- + -oid. The correct English form is fibroid, spelled F-I-B-R-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1A benign tumour of the uterus that is composed of either fibrous connective tissue or muscle.
- 2A fibroma.
Etymology
From fibro- + -oid.
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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