mitogen
"mitogen" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mitogen” is uncommon English (frequency #95,149 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,149
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any substance that stimulates mitosis
Corpus desk
Index EN-mitogen · mitogen · English
mitogen · rank #95,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,149
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mithril
Nearest frequency peer: mithril (-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 “mitogen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mirena
Mirena
4,855 corpus weight
- mithril
mithril
4,853 corpus weight
- mitogen
mitogen
4,852 corpus weight
- modder
modder
4,851 corpus weight
- molluscan
molluscan
4,850 corpus weight
- monetise
monetise
4,849 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mitogen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitogen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mitogen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mitogen is uncommon English at frequency #95,149 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any substance that stimulates mitosis".
No misspelling variants are generated for mitogen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mitosis (“cell division”) + -gen (“a producer of something”). The correct English form is mitogen, spelled M-I-T-O-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Any substance that stimulates mitosis
Etymology
From mitosis (“cell division”) + -gen (“a producer of something”).
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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