hydrophilic
"hydrophilic" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hydrophilic” is uncommon English (frequency #52,392 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,392
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having an affinity for water; able to absorb, or be wetted by water; water-loving.
| 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) |
Where “hydrophilic” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hydrophilic is uncommon English at frequency #52,392 among 23,837 “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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Using “hydrophilic”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-Y-D-R-O-P-H-I-L-I-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.