goiter
/ˈɡɔɪtə/
"goiter" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goiter” is uncommon English (frequency #88,392 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,392
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of goitre.
Corpus desk
Index EN-goiter · goiter · English
goiter · rank #88,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,392
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gopnik
Nearest frequency peer: gopnik (+2 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 “goiter”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- glucoside
glucoside
11,614 corpus weight
- Godalming
Godalming
11,613 corpus weight
- goiter
goiter
11,609 corpus weight
- gopnik
gopnik
11,607 corpus weight
- gort
gort
11,606 corpus weight
- Gowda
Gowda
11,604 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “goiter” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goiter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɔɪtə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “goiter” in English
Rare enough to double-check
goiter is uncommon English at frequency #88,392 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡɔɪtə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of goitre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for goiter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is goiter, spelled G-O-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of goitre.
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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