lymphocyte
"lymphocyte" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lymphocyte” is uncommon English (frequency #54,318 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,318
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lymphocyte · lymphocyte · English
lymphocyte · rank #54,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,318
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lulled
Nearest frequency peer: lulled (-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 “lymphocyte”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Louvain
Louvain
45,686 corpus weight
- Lucretia
Lucretia
45,685 corpus weight
- lulled
lulled
45,684 corpus weight
- lymphocyte
lymphocyte
45,683 corpus weight
- MacGyver
MacGyver
45,682 corpus weight
- malachite
malachite
45,680 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lymphocyte” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lymphocyte |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lymphocyte” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lymphocyte is uncommon English at frequency #54,318 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lymphocyte in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From lympho- + -cyte. The correct English form is lymphocyte, spelled L-Y-M-P-H-O-C-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.
Etymology
From lympho- + -cyte.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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