glioma
/ɡlaɪˈəʊmə/
"glioma" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glioma” is uncommon English (frequency #68,255 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,255
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord
Corpus desk
Index EN-glioma · glioma · English
glioma · rank #68,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,255
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gladiatorial
Nearest frequency peer: gladiatorial (-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 “glioma”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gasquet
Gasquet
31,754 corpus weight
- gladiatorial
gladiatorial
31,747 corpus weight
- glioma
glioma
31,746 corpus weight
- globus
globus
31,745 corpus weight
- gooden
gooden
31,742 corpus weight
- gracilis
gracilis
31,739 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “glioma” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glioma |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡlaɪˈəʊmə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glioma” in English
Rare enough to double-check
glioma is uncommon English at frequency #68,255 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡlaɪˈəʊmə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for glioma, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From glia + -oma. The correct English form is glioma, spelled G-L-I-O-M-A.
Definition
- 1A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord
Etymology
From glia + -oma.
This word in other languages
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).