navicular
"navicular" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“navicular” is uncommon English (frequency #95,179 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,179
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Shaped like a boat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-navicular · navicular · English
navicular · rank #95,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,179
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH NASB
Nearest frequency peer: NASB (-4 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 “navicular”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- muckle
muckle
4,837 corpus weight
- multipath
multipath
4,835 corpus weight
- muzzy
muzzy
4,831 corpus weight
- nandu
nandu
4,828 corpus weight
- NASB
NASB
4,826 corpus weight
- navicular
navicular
4,822 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “navicular” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | navicular |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “navicular” in English
Rare enough to double-check
navicular is uncommon English at frequency #95,179 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for navicular in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French naviculaire, itself borrowed from Late Latin nāviculāris (“boat shaped”), from Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. The correct English form is navicular, spelled N-A-V-I-C-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Shaped like a boat.
- 2Relating to boats.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how navicular appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sooth to say, as far so^([sic]) workmanship alone went, there was much to be desired. Vessels that went "home," looking as if "they'd grow'd in the'oods" — to quote British Jack's description — could not but provoke unfavourable opinion upon our navicular art as a whole.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French naviculaire, itself borrowed from Late Latin nāviculāris (“boat shaped”), from Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).