maxillofacial
"maxillofacial" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maxillofacial” is uncommon English (frequency #61,623 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,623
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to the jaw and face.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maxillofacial · maxillofacial · English
maxillofacial · rank #61,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,623
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Martineau
Nearest frequency peer: Martineau (-2 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 “maxillofacial”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- marchioness
marchioness
38,384 corpus weight
- Marci
Marci
38,383 corpus weight
- Martineau
Martineau
38,380 corpus weight
- maxillofaci…
maxillofacial
38,378 corpus weight
- melancholia
melancholia
38,375 corpus weight
- Menelaus
Menelaus
38,374 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “maxillofacial” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maxillofacial |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #61,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “maxillofacial” in English
Rare enough to double-check
maxillofacial is uncommon English at frequency #61,623 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or relating to the jaw and face.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for maxillofacial in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From maxillo- + facial. The correct English form is maxillofacial, spelled M-A-X-I-L-L-O-F-A-C-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to the jaw and face.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maxillofacial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Women represent up to 90 percent of patients who seek treatment, Dr. Leonard B. Kaban, chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said in an interview.
It wasn't long after arriving in Boulongne that Valadier convinced the general staff at the hospital to allow him to establish a temporary jaw unit in nearby Wimereux to handle the large number of maxillofacial injuries arriving from the front.
Etymology
From maxillo- + facial.
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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