nephritis
/nɪˈfraɪtɪs/
"nephritis" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nephritis” is uncommon English (frequency #80,702 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,702
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation of the kidney.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nephritis · nephritis · English
nephritis · rank #80,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,702
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH neotropical
Nearest frequency peer: neotropical (-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 “nephritis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Nefertiti
Nefertiti
19,302 corpus weight
- neoplasia
neoplasia
19,301 corpus weight
- neotropical
neotropical
19,300 corpus weight
- nephritis
nephritis
19,299 corpus weight
- neurodegene…
neurodegeneration
19,297 corpus weight
- neurofibrom…
neurofibromatosis
19,296 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “nephritis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nephritis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /nɪˈfraɪtɪs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nephritis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nephritis is uncommon English at frequency #80,702 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /nɪˈfraɪtɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation of the kidney.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nephritis, 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: Internationalism. From nephr- + -itis. The correct English form is nephritis, spelled N-E-P-H-R-I-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Inflammation of the kidney.
Etymology
Internationalism. From nephr- + -itis.
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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