monoclinic
"monoclinic" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“monoclinic” is uncommon English (frequency #83,528 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,528
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having three unequal axes with two perpendicular and one oblique intersections.
Corpus desk
Index EN-monoclinic · monoclinic · English
monoclinic · rank #83,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,528
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH monism
Nearest frequency peer: monism (-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 “monoclinic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mikan
mikan
16,480 corpus weight
- misspent
misspent
16,478 corpus weight
- monism
monism
16,474 corpus weight
- monoclinic
monoclinic
16,473 corpus weight
- moodle
moodle
16,471 corpus weight
- moonraker
moonraker
16,470 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “monoclinic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monoclinic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “monoclinic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
monoclinic is uncommon English at frequency #83,528 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having three unequal axes with two perpendicular and one oblique intersections.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for monoclinic, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mono- + clinic. The correct English form is monoclinic, spelled M-O-N-O-C-L-I-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Having three unequal axes with two perpendicular and one oblique intersections.
Etymology
From mono- + clinic.
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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