megalithic
/ˌmɛɡəˈlɪθɪk/
"megalithic" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“megalithic” is uncommon English (frequency #71,695 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,695
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.
Corpus desk
Index EN-megalithic · megalithic · English
megalithic · rank #71,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,695
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH Meghalaya
Nearest frequency peer: Meghalaya (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “megalithic”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- McCook
McCook
28,311 corpus weight
- McGlynn
McGlynn
28,310 corpus weight
- megalithic
megalithic
28,306 corpus weight
- Meghalaya
Meghalaya
28,305 corpus weight
- Mesolithic
Mesolithic
28,304 corpus weight
- Metairie
Metairie
28,303 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “megalithic” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | megalithic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌmɛɡəˈlɪθɪk/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “megalithic” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
megalithic is uncommon English at frequency #71,695 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌmɛɡəˈlɪθɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.".
No misspelling variants are generated for megalithic in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *méǵh₂s From mega- (prefix meaning ‘very large, great’) + -lith (suffix meaning ‘stone’) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns), probably modelled after monolithic; according to the Oxford English Dictionary th… The correct English form is megalithic, spelled M-E-G-A-L-I-T-H-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.
Etymology
PIE word *méǵh₂s From mega- (prefix meaning ‘very large, great’) + -lith (suffix meaning ‘stone’) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns), probably modelled after monolithic; according to the Oxford English Dictionary the word is first attested earlier than megalith. It is analysable as megalith + -ic.
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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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.