iPSC
"ipsc" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“iPSC” is uncommon English (frequency #92,735 among 17,902 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,735
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Initialism of induced pluripotent stem cell.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iPSC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “iPSC” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
iPSC is uncommon English at frequency #92,735 among 17,902 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of induced pluripotent stem cell.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for iPSC, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is iPSC, spelled I-P-S-C.
Definition
- 1Initialism of induced pluripotent stem cell.
Synonyms
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 “iPSC”
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- The one correct English spelling is I-P-S-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.