nitrogenous
"nitrogenous" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nitrogenous” is uncommon English (frequency #87,610 among 24,391 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,610
- frequency rank, English
- 24,391
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - of, relating to, or containing nitrogen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nitrogenous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nitrogenous” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
nitrogenous is uncommon English at frequency #87,610 among 24,391 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "of, relating to, or containing nitrogen".
nitrogenous doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From nitrogen + -ous. The correct English form is nitrogenous, spelled N-I-T-R-O-G-E-N-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1of, relating to, or containing nitrogen
Etymology
From nitrogen + -ous.
Synonyms
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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Using “nitrogenous”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is N-I-T-R-O-G-E-N-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.