neuroendocrine
"neuroendocrine" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“neuroendocrine” is uncommon English (frequency #63,835 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,835
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pertaining to the nervous system and endocrine system together
Corpus desk
Index EN-neuroendocrine · neuroendocrine · English
neuroendocrine · rank #63,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,835
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH netherworld
Nearest frequency peer: netherworld (-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 “neuroendocrine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Naman
Naman
36,172 corpus weight
- Nasrallah
Nasrallah
36,170 corpus weight
- neodymium
neodymium
36,168 corpus weight
- netherworld
netherworld
36,167 corpus weight
- neuroendocr…
neuroendocrine
36,166 corpus weight
- neuroses
neuroses
36,165 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “neuroendocrine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neuroendocrine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #63,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “neuroendocrine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
neuroendocrine is uncommon English at frequency #63,835 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pertaining to the nervous system and endocrine system together".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for neuroendocrine, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From neuro- + endocrine. The correct English form is neuroendocrine, spelled N-E-U-R-O-E-N-D-O-C-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1pertaining to the nervous system and endocrine system together
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how neuroendocrine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a neuroendocrine cancer
Etymology
From neuro- + endocrine.
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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