homozygous
/ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəs/
"homozygous" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homozygous” is uncommon English (frequency #54,839 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,839
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele
Corpus desk
Index EN-homozygous · homozygous · English
homozygous · rank #54,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,839
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Horta
Nearest frequency peer: Horta (+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 “homozygous”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hideously
hideously
45,166 corpus weight
- Hofer
Hofer
45,165 corpus weight
- homespun
homespun
45,164 corpus weight
- homozygous
homozygous
45,162 corpus weight
- Horta
Horta
45,161 corpus weight
- housings
housings
45,159 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “homozygous” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homozygous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “homozygous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
homozygous is uncommon English at frequency #54,839 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele".
homozygous doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From homo- + -zygous. The correct English form is homozygous, spelled H-O-M-O-Z-Y-G-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele
Etymology
From homo- + -zygous.
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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