hippocampal
"hippocampal" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hippocampal” is uncommon English (frequency #52,378 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,378
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pertaining to the hippocampus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hippocampal · hippocampal · English
hippocampal · rank #52,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,378
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hindley
Nearest frequency peer: Hindley (-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 “hippocampal”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hendon
Hendon
47,626 corpus weight
- hieroglyphi…
hieroglyphics
47,625 corpus weight
- Hindley
Hindley
47,624 corpus weight
- hippocampal
hippocampal
47,623 corpus weight
- hitchhiker
hitchhiker
47,622 corpus weight
- Hitomi
Hitomi
47,621 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hippocampal” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hippocampal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hippocampal” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hippocampal is uncommon English at frequency #52,378 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pertaining to the hippocampus.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hippocampal, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is hippocampal, spelled H-I-P-P-O-C-A-M-P-A-L.
Definition
- 1Pertaining to the hippocampus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hippocampal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An article on hippocampal association that Diana Hartrick co-authored grabbed my imagination.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).