necrosis
"necrosis" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“necrosis” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,097. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,097
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.
Corpus desk
Index EN-necrosis · necrosis · English
necrosis · rank #32,097 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,097
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Napoleonic
Nearest frequency peer: Napoleonic (-2 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “necrosis”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- murmur
murmur
67,910 corpus weight
- Nair
Nair
67,907 corpus weight
- Napoleonic
Napoleonic
67,906 corpus weight
- necrosis
necrosis
67,904 corpus weight
- Niro
Niro
67,902 corpus weight
- nth
nth
67,899 corpus weight
What this shows “necrosis” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | necrosis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “necrosis”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around necrosis, anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,097 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for necrosis, with forms such as "encrosis", "ncerosis", and "neccrosis". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "neurosis", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek νέκρωσις (nékrōsis), equivalent to necro- + -osis. The correct English form is necrosis, spelled N-E-C-R-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how necrosis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Usually gangrene will follow necrosis unless the dead tissue is resected.
These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νέκρωσις (nékrōsis), equivalent to necro- + -osis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- encrosis
- ncerosis
- neccrosis
- necorsis
- necroiss
- necrosiss
- necrossi
- necrossis
- necrrosis
- necrsois
- nercosis
- nnecrosis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of necrosis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).