hypochondriacal
"hypochondriacal" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hypochondriacal” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coming from the hypochondria; pertaining to or caused by depressive spirits.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hypochondriacal · hypochondriacal · English
hypochondriacal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypochondriacal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hypochondriacal” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hypochondriacal is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hypochondriacal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hypochondriac + -al. The correct English form is hypochondriacal, spelled H-Y-P-O-C-H-O-N-D-R-I-A-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Coming from the hypochondria; pertaining to or caused by depressive spirits.
- 2Suffering from hypochondria.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hypochondriacal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fracastorius, Fallopius, and others, being to give their sentence of a party labouring of hypochondriacal melancholy, could not find out by the symptoms which part was most especially affected […].
[…] the hypochondriacal British ceramist William De Morgan, who spent winters in Florence for his health while gradually bankrupting his business back home producing iridescent mythological scenes on tiles, vases and plates.
Etymology
From hypochondriac + -al.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.