mitotic
/maɪˈtɒtɪk/
"mitotic" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mitotic” is uncommon English (frequency #54,945 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,945
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to mitosis.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mitotic · mitotic · English
mitotic · rank #54,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,945
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mishnah
Nearest frequency peer: Mishnah (-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 “mitotic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Minto
Minto
45,059 corpus weight
- misfire
misfire
45,058 corpus weight
- Mishnah
Mishnah
45,057 corpus weight
- mitotic
mitotic
45,056 corpus weight
- mone
mone
45,054 corpus weight
- monocle
monocle
45,053 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mitotic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitotic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /maɪˈtɒtɪk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mitotic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mitotic is uncommon English at frequency #54,945 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /maɪˈtɒtɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to mitosis.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mitotic, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is mitotic, spelled M-I-T-O-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to mitosis.
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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