hypothalamic

adj

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"hypothalamic" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“hypothalamic” is uncommon English (frequency #64,433 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,433
frequency rank, English
2,646
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.

Corpus desk

Index EN-hypothalamic · hypothalamic · English

hypothalamic · rank #64,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,433
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,646
  • PHOTO-FINISH hymnal

Nearest frequency peer: hymnal (-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 “hypothalamic”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “hypothalamic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for hypothalamic
PropertyValue
Headwordhypothalamic
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Frequency rank#64,433
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “hypothalamic” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).hypothalamicfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “hymnal” (#64,432), “Hutcheson” (#64,431), “ignoramus” (#64,435). Among 2,646 “H” headwords, “hypothalamic” is #64,433. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

hypothalamic is uncommon English at frequency #64,433 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.".

hypothalamic has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is hypothalamic, spelled H-Y-P-O-T-H-A-L-A-M-I-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how hypothalamic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Thus, in brain studies that purport to find the origins of sexual orientation, gay men are said to have hypothalamic nuclei that are smaller than a straight man’s and closer in size to a woman’s, and thus they are attracted to men.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hypothalamic"?
"hypothalamic" is spelled H-Y-P-O-T-H-A-L-A-M-I-C.
What does "hypothalamic" mean?
As an adjective, "hypothalamic" means: Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.
What language does "hypothalamic" come from?
"hypothalamic" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hypothalamic", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

exchangeable#64,365echolocation#64,344dopaminergic#64,328mockumentary#64,546

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list