ischemic
/ɪˈskiːmɪk/
"ischemic" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ischemic” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,132
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Characteristic of, or accompanied by, ischemia — localised anaemia due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply, creating a local disturbance in blood circulation.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ischemic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪˈskiːmɪk/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ischemic” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ischemic (IPA /ɪˈskiːmɪk/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,132 among 17,902 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Characteristic of, or accompanied by, ischemia — localised anaemia due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply, creating a local disturbance in blood circulation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ischemic, with forms such as "icshemic", "iscchemic", and "iscehmic". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ischemia", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is ischemic, spelled I-S-C-H-E-M-I-C.
Definition
- 1Characteristic of, or accompanied by, ischemia — localised anaemia due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply, creating a local disturbance in blood circulation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- icshemic
- iscchemic
- iscehmic
- ischeimc
- ischemci
- ischemicc
- ischemmic
- ischhemic
- ischmeic
- ishcemic
- isschemic
- sichemic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ischemic - 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 “ischemic”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-S-C-H-E-M-I-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɪˈskiːmɪk/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ischemia” - see the side-by-side comparison. ischemic vs ischemia
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.