gonadotropin
"gonadotropin" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gonadotropin” is uncommon English (frequency #79,546 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,546
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of a group of protein hormones secreted by gonadotrope cells of the pituitary gland of vertebrates.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gonadotropin · gonadotropin · English
gonadotropin · rank #79,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,546
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gotchu
Nearest frequency peer: gotchu (+2 rank slots)
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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 “gonadotropin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gauchos
gauchos
20,463 corpus weight
- GEF
GEF
20,461 corpus weight
- gigafactory
gigafactory
20,460 corpus weight
- gonadotropin
gonadotropin
20,455 corpus weight
- gotchu
gotchu
20,453 corpus weight
- graben
graben
20,451 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gonadotropin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gonadotropin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #79,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gonadotropin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gonadotropin is uncommon English at frequency #79,546 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of a group of protein hormones secreted by gonadotrope cells of the pituitary gland of vertebrates.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gonadotropin in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gonadotrope + -in. The correct English form is gonadotropin, spelled G-O-N-A-D-O-T-R-O-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Any of a group of protein hormones secreted by gonadotrope cells of the pituitary gland of vertebrates.
Etymology
From gonadotrope + -in.
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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