intramuscular
"intramuscular" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“intramuscular” is uncommon English (frequency #58,767 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,767
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inside a muscle or the muscles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-intramuscular · intramuscular · English
intramuscular · rank #58,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,767
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH invective
Nearest frequency peer: invective (+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 “intramuscular”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ineffable
ineffable
41,238 corpus weight
- infuriate
infuriate
41,236 corpus weight
- intramuscul…
intramuscular
41,234 corpus weight
- invective
invective
41,233 corpus weight
- invoicing
invoicing
41,232 corpus weight
- isomorphism
isomorphism
41,231 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “intramuscular” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intramuscular |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #58,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “intramuscular” in English
Rare enough to double-check
intramuscular is uncommon English at frequency #58,767 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inside a muscle or the muscles.".
intramuscular 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 typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Latin intramuscularis, from prefix intra-, "within", + musculum, "muscle". The correct English form is intramuscular, spelled I-N-T-R-A-M-U-S-C-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Inside a muscle or the muscles.
Etymology
From Late Latin intramuscularis, from prefix intra-, "within", + musculum, "muscle".
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).