gastrectomy
"gastrectomy" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gastrectomy” is uncommon English (frequency #86,305 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,305
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surgical removal or partial removal of the stomach.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gastrectomy · gastrectomy · English
gastrectomy · rank #86,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,305
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH garçon
Nearest frequency peer: garçon (-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 “gastrectomy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gapes
gapes
13,700 corpus weight
- gapped
gapped
13,699 corpus weight
- garçon
garçon
13,697 corpus weight
- gastrectomy
gastrectomy
13,696 corpus weight
- gastroesoph…
gastroesophageal
13,695 corpus weight
- Glenmore
Glenmore
13,691 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gastrectomy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gastrectomy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gastrectomy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gastrectomy is uncommon English at frequency #86,305 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Surgical removal or partial removal of the stomach.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gastrectomy, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: gastr- + -ectomy, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr). The correct English form is gastrectomy, spelled G-A-S-T-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y.
Definition
- 1Surgical removal or partial removal of the stomach.
Etymology
From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: gastr- + -ectomy, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).