internist
"internist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“internist” is uncommon English (frequency #65,213 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,213
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A physician who specialises in internal medicine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-internist · internist · English
internist · rank #65,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,213
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH inshallah
Nearest frequency peer: inshallah (-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 “internist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- infirmity
infirmity
34,793 corpus weight
- inshallah
inshallah
34,789 corpus weight
- internist
internist
34,788 corpus weight
- intransitive
intransitive
34,787 corpus weight
- invigorate
invigorate
34,785 corpus weight
- inviolable
inviolable
34,784 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “internist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | internist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “internist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
internist is uncommon English at frequency #65,213 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A physician who specialises in internal medicine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for internist, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Internist, corresponding to intern (“internal”) + -ist. The correct English form is internist, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A physician who specialises in internal medicine.
Etymology
From German Internist, corresponding to intern (“internal”) + -ist.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).