helicobacter
"helicobacter" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“helicobacter” is uncommon English (frequency #83,331 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,331
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
Corpus desk
Index EN-helicobacter · helicobacter · English
helicobacter · rank #83,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,331
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH heedless
Nearest frequency peer: heedless (-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 “helicobacter”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- heedless
heedless
16,672 corpus weight
- helicobacter
helicobacter
16,670 corpus weight
- hendy
hendy
16,667 corpus weight
- herby
herby
16,666 corpus weight
- herdsman
herdsman
16,665 corpus weight
- Heredia
Heredia
16,664 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “helicobacter” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | helicobacter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #83,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “helicobacter” in English
Rare enough to double-check
helicobacter is uncommon English at frequency #83,331 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.".
helicobacter has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from translingual Helicobacter. The correct English form is helicobacter, spelled H-E-L-I-C-O-B-A-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how helicobacter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“We provide evidence that there is a relationship between the decrease in helicobacter prevalence and the increase in childhood asthma.”
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Helicobacter.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).