immunocompromised
"immunocompromised" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“immunocompromised” is uncommon English (frequency #65,200 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,200
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having an immune system that has been impaired by disease or treatment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-immunocompromised · immunocompromised · English
immunocompromised · rank #65,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,200
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH imbibe
Nearest frequency peer: imbibe (-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 “immunocompromised”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- imbibe
imbibe
34,802 corpus weight
- immunocompr…
immunocompromised
34,801 corpus weight
- impassive
impassive
34,800 corpus weight
- impermanence
impermanence
34,799 corpus weight
- impudence
impudence
34,797 corpus weight
- incoherence
incoherence
34,796 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “immunocompromised” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | immunocompromised |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #65,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “immunocompromised” in English
Rare enough to double-check
immunocompromised is uncommon English at frequency #65,200 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having an immune system that has been impaired by disease or treatment.".
immunocompromised doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From immuno- + compromised. The correct English form is immunocompromised, spelled I-M-M-U-N-O-C-O-M-P-R-O-M-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having an immune system that has been impaired by disease or treatment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how immunocompromised appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
More than seven million adults in the United States, or about 3 percent, are characterized by health professionals as immunocompromised because of a disease, medication or other treatment that weakens their body’s immune response, meaning that diseases such as Covid-19 can be more deadly to them, and that vaccines offer less protection.
Etymology
From immuno- + compromised.
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 17 letters (nearest by frequency rank).