hydrophilic
"hydrophilic" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hydrophilic” is uncommon English (frequency #52,392 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,392
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having an affinity for water; able to absorb, or be wetted by water; water-loving.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hydrophilic · hydrophilic · English
hydrophilic · rank #52,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,392
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH I2
Nearest frequency peer: I2 (+2 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 “hydrophilic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hubbub
hubbub
47,614 corpus weight
- Huda
Huda
47,613 corpus weight
- humorously
humorously
47,612 corpus weight
- hydrophilic
hydrophilic
47,609 corpus weight
- I2
I2
47,607 corpus weight
- Ibo
Ibo
47,606 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hydrophilic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hydrophilic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hydrophilic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hydrophilic is uncommon English at frequency #52,392 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having an affinity for water; able to absorb, or be wetted by water; water-loving.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hydrophilic in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hydro- + -philic. The correct English form is hydrophilic, spelled H-Y-D-R-O-P-H-I-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1Having an affinity for water; able to absorb, or be wetted by water; water-loving.
Etymology
From hydro- + -philic.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).