foodborne
"foodborne" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foodborne” is uncommon English (frequency #62,905 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,905
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transmitted through food.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foodborne · foodborne · English
foodborne · rank #62,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,905
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH frac
Nearest frequency peer: frac (+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 “foodborne”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- flycatcher
flycatcher
37,100 corpus weight
- FNaF
FNaF
37,099 corpus weight
- Fokker
Fokker
37,098 corpus weight
- foodborne
foodborne
37,096 corpus weight
- frac
frac
37,095 corpus weight
- Freire
Freire
37,093 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “foodborne” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foodborne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foodborne” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foodborne is uncommon English at frequency #62,905 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Transmitted through food.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for foodborne, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From food + borne. The correct English form is foodborne, spelled F-O-O-D-B-O-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Transmitted through food.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foodborne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Many people become ill by ingesting foodborne bacteria.
Etymology
From food + borne.
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).