interleukin
"interleukin" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“interleukin” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,209
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of a group of cytokine proteins important in the regulation of lymphocyte function.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interleukin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #42,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “interleukin” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around interleukin, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,209 among 17,902 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Any of a group of cytokine proteins important in the regulation of lymphocyte function.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for interleukin, with forms such as "inetrleukin", "innterleukin", and "intelreukin". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From inter- + leuko- + -in; *inter-: from Latin inter- (“between, amid”), a form of prepositional inter (“between”). *leuko: from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) *-in: from French -ine, from Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus "of" or "belonging to" The correct English form is interleukin, spelled I-N-T-E-R-L-E-U-K-I-N.
Definition
- 1Any of a group of cytokine proteins important in the regulation of lymphocyte function.
Etymology
From inter- + leuko- + -in; *inter-: from Latin inter- (“between, amid”), a form of prepositional inter (“between”). *leuko: from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) *-in: from French -ine, from Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus "of" or "belonging to"
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrleukin
- innterleukin
- intelreukin
- interelukin
- interlekuin
- interleuikn
- interleukinn
- interleukkin
- interleukni
- interlleukin
- interluekin
- interrleukin
- intreleukin
- intterleukin
- itnerleukin
- niterleukin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of interleukin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “interleukin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-T-E-R-L-E-U-K-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.