Indic
"indic" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Indic” is uncommon English (frequency #75,988 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,988
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.
Corpus desk
Index EN-indic · Indic · English
Indic · rank #75,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,988
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH incommunicado
Nearest frequency peer: incommunicado (-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 “Indic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- impermanent
impermanent
24,016 corpus weight
- impulsivene…
impulsiveness
24,015 corpus weight
- incommunica…
incommunicado
24,014 corpus weight
- Indic
Indic
24,013 corpus weight
- indiscipline
indiscipline
24,012 corpus weight
- inflexibili…
inflexibility
24,010 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Indic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Indic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Indic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Indic is uncommon English at frequency #75,988 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.".
Indic has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin indicus from Ancient Greek ἰνδικός (indikós), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of indigo. The correct English form is Indic, spelled I-N-D-I-C.
Definition
- 1A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Indic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Second, it is the only group that directly attests to a period of common development between two branches of the Indo-European family, namely, Indic and Iranian.
Similar transfers in Indic are fewer in number owing to the early loss of the aor.: for example, the pres. cayate 'notices' (aoristic root ci-, PIE *kʷey) is in origin the subj. of root aorist ácet, and displaces the earlier redup. Pres cikéṣi (AV), imperf. áciket (RV).
Etymology
From Latin indicus from Ancient Greek ἰνδικός (indikós), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of indigo.
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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