hydrogel
"hydrogel" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hydrogel” is uncommon English (frequency #67,514 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,514
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A colloid gel in which water is the continuous phase; they have a number of medical and industrial applications.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hydrogel · hydrogel · English
hydrogel · rank #67,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,514
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hyperloop
Nearest frequency peer: hyperloop (+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 “hydrogel”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hoffenheim
Hoffenheim
32,495 corpus weight
- hoodlum
hoodlum
32,491 corpus weight
- hoody
hoody
32,490 corpus weight
- hydrogel
hydrogel
32,487 corpus weight
- hyperloop
hyperloop
32,486 corpus weight
- IHE
IHE
32,482 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hydrogel” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hydrogel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hydrogel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hydrogel is uncommon English at frequency #67,514 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A colloid gel in which water is the continuous phase; they have a number of medical and industrial applications.".
hydrogel has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hydro- + gel. The correct English form is hydrogel, spelled H-Y-D-R-O-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1A colloid gel in which water is the continuous phase; they have a number of medical and industrial applications.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hydrogel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The tough, bendable fabric combines hydrogels — such as those found in contact lenses or jello – with glass fibers. This particular combination maximizes its resilience, making the material 100 times tougher than hydrogels and 25 times tougher than glass fiber fabric, based on the amount of energy needed to destroy it. […] Gong believes the fiber-reinforc…
Etymology
From hydro- + gel.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).