irrecondite

adj

"irrecondite" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“irrecondite” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not recondite; well-known.

Corpus desk

Index EN-irrecondite · irrecondite · English

irrecondite · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "I" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for irrecondite
PropertyValue
Headwordirrecondite
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “irrecondite” in English

irreconditeranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

irrecondite is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not recondite; well-known.".

irrecondite has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From ir- + recondite. The correct English form is irrecondite, spelled I-R-R-E-C-O-N-D-I-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Not recondite; well-known.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how irrecondite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] Socrates […] was rather a moral and political, than a physical or metaphysical philosopher; and hence his creed was either deficient upon the subject of cosmology, or too simple and irrecondite to satisfy the curiosity of his pupils.
  2. ..than institutions of another class were found wanting: — a something that might fill up the space between the cloistered scholar and the irrecondite citizen ; the...

Etymology

From ir- + recondite.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "irrecondite"?
"irrecondite" is spelled I-R-R-E-C-O-N-D-I-T-E.
What does "irrecondite" mean?
As an adjective, "irrecondite" means: Not recondite; well-known.
What is the origin of the word "irrecondite"?
From ir- + recondite. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list