neotropical
"neotropical" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“neotropical” is uncommon English (frequency #80,701 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,701
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Occurring in tropical America, i.e. the tropics of the New World.
Corpus desk
Index EN-neotropical · neotropical · English
neotropical · rank #80,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,701
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH neoplasia
Nearest frequency peer: neoplasia (-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 “neotropical”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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19,300 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “neotropical” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neotropical |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “neotropical” in English
Rare enough to double-check
neotropical is uncommon English at frequency #80,701 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Occurring in tropical America, i.e. the tropics of the New World.".
No misspelling variants are generated for neotropical in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From neo- + tropical. The correct English form is neotropical, spelled N-E-O-T-R-O-P-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Occurring in tropical America, i.e. the tropics of the New World.
Etymology
From neo- + tropical.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).