homomorphism
"homomorphism" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homomorphism” is uncommon English (frequency #91,611 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,611
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A structure-preserving map between two algebraic structures of the same type, such as groups, rings, or vector spaces.
Corpus desk
Index EN-homomorphism · homomorphism · English
homomorphism · rank #91,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,611
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hokum
Nearest frequency peer: hokum (-1 rank slots)
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Long-tail ranks near “homomorphism”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hihi
hihi
8,395 corpus weight
- histopathol…
histopathological
8,393 corpus weight
- Hoekstra
Hoekstra
8,392 corpus weight
- hokum
hokum
8,391 corpus weight
- homomorphism
homomorphism
8,390 corpus weight
- huckster
huckster
8,385 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “homomorphism” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homomorphism |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #91,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “homomorphism” in English
Rare enough to double-check
homomorphism is uncommon English at frequency #91,611 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for homomorphism, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From homo- + morphism. The correct English form is homomorphism, spelled H-O-M-O-M-O-R-P-H-I-S-M.
Definition
- 1A structure-preserving map between two algebraic structures of the same type, such as groups, rings, or vector spaces.
- 2A similar appearance of two unrelated organisms or structures, as for example with fish and whales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homomorphism appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A field homomorphism is a map from one field to another one which is additive, multiplicative, zero-preserving, and unit-preserving.
1954, Kuo-Tsai Chen, Iterated Integrals and Exponential Homomorphisms, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Reprinted in 2001, Philippe Tondeur (editor), Collected Papers of K.-T. Chen, Birkhäuser, page 54, This motivates a generalization, and exponential homomorphisms are now defined, in an algebraic fashion, from certain free products to form…
Etymology
From homo- + morphism.
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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