glucoside
"glucoside" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glucoside” is uncommon English (frequency #88,387 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,387
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A glycoside that yields glucose after hydrolysis.
Corpus desk
Index EN-glucoside · glucoside · English
glucoside · rank #88,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,387
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gluconeogenes…
Nearest frequency peer: gluconeogenesis (-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 “glucoside”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gleamed
gleamed
11,618 corpus weight
- Glenlivet
Glenlivet
11,617 corpus weight
- Glenrothes
Glenrothes
11,616 corpus weight
- gluconeogen…
gluconeogenesis
11,615 corpus weight
- glucoside
glucoside
11,614 corpus weight
- Godalming
Godalming
11,613 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “glucoside” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glucoside |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glucoside” in English
Rare enough to double-check
glucoside is uncommon English at frequency #88,387 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A glycoside that yields glucose after hydrolysis.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for glucoside, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From glucose + -ide (1865-70). The correct English form is glucoside, spelled G-L-U-C-O-S-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1A glycoside that yields glucose after hydrolysis.
Etymology
From glucose + -ide (1865-70).
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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