kegel
"kegel" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kegel” is uncommon English (frequency #79,668 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,668
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The pubococcygeal muscles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kegel · kegel · English
kegel · rank #79,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,668
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Karelia
Nearest frequency peer: Karelia (-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 “kegel”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kadyrov
Kadyrov
20,338 corpus weight
- Kagoshima
Kagoshima
20,336 corpus weight
- kampung
kampung
20,335 corpus weight
- Karelia
Karelia
20,334 corpus weight
- kegel
kegel
20,333 corpus weight
- khon
khon
20,331 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kegel” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kegel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kegel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kegel is uncommon English at frequency #79,668 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kegel, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: After Arnold Kegel. The surname is of German origin; see Kegel (“skittle, bowling pin”). The correct English form is kegel, spelled K-E-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1The pubococcygeal muscles.
- 2A contraction of the pubococcygeal muscles, performed for the purpose of strengthening them.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kegel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The parenting magazines are on a higher moral plane than the how-to-get-a-guy magazines, just as a man going home to his wife and children (or a woman breast-feeding a baby) is on a higher moral plane than a man out trolling for nookie (or a woman flexing her Kegels in preparation for a date).
Done for a few minutes a day, Kegels can ease childbirth, help with recovery, prevent incontinence — even improve your sex life.
Etymology
After Arnold Kegel. The surname is of German origin; see Kegel (“skittle, bowling pin”).
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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