hemorrhoid
/ˈhɛməɹɔɪd/
"hemorrhoid" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hemorrhoid” is uncommon English (frequency #69,926 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,926
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hemorrhoid · hemorrhoid · English
hemorrhoid · rank #69,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,926
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hecate
Nearest frequency peer: Hecate (-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 “hemorrhoid”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hatreds
hatreds
30,078 corpus weight
- Hecate
Hecate
30,076 corpus weight
- hemorrhoid
hemorrhoid
30,075 corpus weight
- HMC
HMC
30,072 corpus weight
- Homan
Homan
30,071 corpus weight
- hones
hones
30,070 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hemorrhoid” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hemorrhoid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɛməɹɔɪd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hemorrhoid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hemorrhoid is uncommon English at frequency #69,926 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhɛməɹɔɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.".
hemorrhoid has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English emerowdes, emeroides, emeroydez, from Old French emorroides, from Latin haemorrhoidae, from Ancient Greek αἱμορροΐς (haimorrhoḯs), a feminine adjective from αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos, “flowing with blood”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) and th… The correct English form is hemorrhoid, spelled H-E-M-O-R-R-H-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.
Etymology
From Middle English emerowdes, emeroides, emeroydez, from Old French emorroides, from Latin haemorrhoidae, from Ancient Greek αἱμορροΐς (haimorrhoḯs), a feminine adjective from αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos, “flowing with blood”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) and the root of ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”). Doublet of emerod.
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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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