nitric
/ˈnaɪtɹɪk/
"nitric" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nitric” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,899
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nitric · nitric · English
nitric · rank #30,899 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,899
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Nippon
Nearest frequency peer: Nippon (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “nitric”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Neanderthal
Neanderthal
69,105 corpus weight
- Nippon
Nippon
69,103 corpus weight
- nitric
nitric
69,102 corpus weight
- northerly
northerly
69,101 corpus weight
- O'Rourke
O'Rourke
69,100 corpus weight
- o's
o's
69,099 corpus weight
What this shows “nitric” 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 | nitric |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈnaɪtɹɪk/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “nitric”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around nitric (IPA /ˈnaɪtɹɪk/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,899 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for nitric, with forms such as "intric", "nirtic", and "nitirc". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "nitro", "nitride", "nitrite", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From nitro- + -ic, compare French nitrique. The correct English form is nitric, spelled N-I-T-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nitric appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom less than 1 per cent., but more generally several per cen…
Etymology
From nitro- + -ic, compare French nitrique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- intric
- nirtic
- nitirc
- nitrci
- nitricc
- nitrric
- nittric
- nnitric
- ntiric
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nitric - 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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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