hemolytic
"hemolytic" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hemolytic” is uncommon English (frequency #64,419 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,419
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Producing hemolysis; destroying red blood cells.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hemolytic · hemolytic · English
hemolytic · rank #64,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,419
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hartland
Nearest frequency peer: Hartland (-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 “hemolytic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- harmer
harmer
35,584 corpus weight
- Hartland
Hartland
35,583 corpus weight
- hemolytic
hemolytic
35,582 corpus weight
- heptathlon
heptathlon
35,581 corpus weight
- heterodox
heterodox
35,579 corpus weight
- hev
hev
35,578 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hemolytic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hemolytic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hemolytic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hemolytic is uncommon English at frequency #64,419 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Producing hemolysis; destroying red blood cells.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hemolytic, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 hemolytic, spelled H-E-M-O-L-Y-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Producing hemolysis; destroying red blood cells.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hemolytic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It has been accordingly suggested that the hemolytic action of the saliva is due to the presence of certain salts.
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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