gammadion
"gammadion" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gammadion” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A fylfot or swastika.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gammadion · gammadion · English
gammadion · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" 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 | gammadion |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gammadion” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gammadion is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A fylfot or swastika.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gammadion, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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: Learned borrowing from Byzantine Greek γαμμάδιον (gammádion), diminutive of γάμμα (gámma), after the resemblance of each of the symbol’s arms to the Greek letter gamma: Γ. The correct English form is gammadion, spelled G-A-M-M-A-D-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A fylfot or swastika.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Byzantine Greek γαμμάδιον (gammádion), diminutive of γάμμα (gámma), after the resemblance of each of the symbol’s arms to the Greek letter gamma: Γ.
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.