homodoxy
"homodoxy" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homodoxy” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being homodox.
Corpus desk
Index EN-homodoxy · homodoxy · English
homodoxy · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homodoxy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “homodoxy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
homodoxy is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
homodoxy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From homodox + -y. The correct English form is homodoxy, spelled H-O-M-O-D-O-X-Y.
Definition
- 1The quality of being homodox.
- 2A homodox belief, creed, or teaching.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homodoxy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was, they held, a homodoxy or agreement of basic opinions between Plato and Aristotle.
What all this means is that the synonymies we standardly see across languages, and the homodoxies we standardly see across idiolects, are very seldom the perfect synonymies or homodoxies we might suppose them to be.
Etymology
From homodox + -y.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.