gelatine
/ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/
"gelatine" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gelatine” is uncommon English (frequency #63,644 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,644
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of gelatin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gelatine · gelatine · English
gelatine · rank #63,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,644
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gehry
Nearest frequency peer: Gehry (-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 “gelatine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gata
gata
36,361 corpus weight
- Gehry
Gehry
36,358 corpus weight
- gelatine
gelatine
36,357 corpus weight
- geomorpholo…
geomorphology
36,355 corpus weight
- Gilgit
Gilgit
36,354 corpus weight
- GNR
GNR
36,349 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gelatine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gelatine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gelatine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gelatine is uncommon English at frequency #63,644 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of gelatin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gelatine in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is gelatine, spelled G-E-L-A-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of gelatin.
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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