indispensible
"indispensible" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“indispensible” is uncommon English (frequency #94,990 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,990
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Misspelling of indispensable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-indispensible · indispensible · English
indispensible · rank #94,990 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,990
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH instal
Nearest frequency peer: instal (+3 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 “indispensible”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- illusionary
illusionary
5,017 corpus weight
- immutability
immutability
5,016 corpus weight
- indispensib…
indispensible
5,011 corpus weight
- instal
instal
5,008 corpus weight
- instantiati…
instantiation
5,007 corpus weight
- interpolate
interpolate
5,004 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “indispensible” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indispensible |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #94,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “indispensible” in English
Rare enough to double-check
indispensible is uncommon English at frequency #94,990 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Misspelling of indispensable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for indispensible in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is indispensible, spelled I-N-D-I-S-P-E-N-S-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Misspelling of indispensable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how indispensible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
However, whereas Van Bendegem and Van Kerkhove conclude by saying that experimental methods and an empirical basis form an indispensible backdrop for mathematical practice, Baker goes the other way and says that the fact that mathematicians use experiments in the context of discovery is “compatible with the view that mathematics is a priori and deductive…
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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