ketamine
/ˈkɛt.ə.mɪn/
"ketamine" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ketamine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,883. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,883
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A synthetic compound used as a dissociative anesthetic and analgesic drug and also recreationally as a hallucinogen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ketamine · ketamine · English
ketamine · rank #32,883 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kazan
Nearest frequency peer: kazan (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “ketamine”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- juarez
juarez
67,121 corpus weight
- Judea
Judea
67,120 corpus weight
- kazan
kazan
67,119 corpus weight
- ketamine
ketamine
67,118 corpus weight
- Kinney
Kinney
67,117 corpus weight
- Klingon
Klingon
67,115 corpus weight
What this shows “ketamine” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ketamine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɛt.ə.mɪn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ketamine”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ketamine (IPA /ˈkɛt.ə.mɪn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,883 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A synthetic compound used as a dissociative anesthetic and analgesic drug and also recreationally as a hallucinogen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ketamine, with forms such as "ektamine", "keatmine", and "ketaimne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of ketone + amine. First use appears c. 1966. The correct English form is ketamine, spelled K-E-T-A-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A synthetic compound used as a dissociative anesthetic and analgesic drug and also recreationally as a hallucinogen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ketamine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was riding high that night, with a brick of Wage's ketamine on its way to Yokohama and the money already in his pocket.
The chatbot instructed him to give up sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication, and to increase his intake of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, which ChatGPT described as a “temporary pattern liberator.”
Etymology
Blend of ketone + amine. First use appears c. 1966.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ektamine
- keatmine
- ketaimne
- ketamien
- ketaminne
- ketammine
- ketamnie
- ketmaine
- kettamine
- kketamine
- kteamine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ketamine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).