heterosexuality
"heterosexuality" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heterosexuality” is an uncommon English word, ranked #51,755 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #51,755
- frequency rank, English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the opposite sex.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heterosexuality |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #51,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heterosexuality” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for heterosexuality is 15 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #51,755 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for heterosexuality in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From heterosexual + -ity or hetero- + sexuality. The correct English form is heterosexuality, spelled H-E-T-E-R-O-S-E-X-U-A-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the opposite sex.
- 2Sexual activity with a person of the opposite sex.
Etymology
From heterosexual + -ity or hetero- + sexuality.
Antonyms
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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Using “heterosexuality”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-E-T-E-R-O-S-E-X-U-A-L-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.