methylphenidate
/ˌmɛθ əlˈfɛn ɪˌdeɪt/
"methylphenidate" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“methylphenidate” is uncommon English (frequency #73,430 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,430
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stimulant used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy, better known by the trade name Ritalin
Corpus desk
Index EN-methylphenidate · methylphenidate · English
methylphenidate · rank #73,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,430
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mesoamerican
Nearest frequency peer: Mesoamerican (-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 “methylphenidate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- melty
melty
26,575 corpus weight
- Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica
26,573 corpus weight
- Mesoamerican
Mesoamerican
26,572 corpus weight
- methylpheni…
methylphenidate
26,571 corpus weight
- micellar
micellar
26,569 corpus weight
- microscopic…
microscopically
26,568 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “methylphenidate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | methylphenidate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌmɛθ əlˈfɛn ɪˌdeɪt/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #73,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “methylphenidate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
methylphenidate is uncommon English at frequency #73,430 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌmɛθ əlˈfɛn ɪˌdeɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A stimulant used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy, better known by the trade name Ritalin".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for methylphenidate, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is methylphenidate, spelled M-E-T-H-Y-L-P-H-E-N-I-D-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1A stimulant used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy, better known by the trade name Ritalin
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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