oedema
"oedema" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oedema” is uncommon English (frequency #78,888 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,888
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Standard spelling of edema.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oedema · oedema · English
oedema · rank #78,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,888
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Odum
Nearest frequency peer: Odum (-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 “oedema”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- objectivist
objectivist
21,119 corpus weight
- octogenarian
octogenarian
21,116 corpus weight
- Odum
Odum
21,114 corpus weight
- oedema
oedema
21,113 corpus weight
- olefin
olefin
21,110 corpus weight
- Olicity
Olicity
21,109 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “oedema” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oedema |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “oedema” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oedema is uncommon English at frequency #78,888 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Standard spelling of edema.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oedema in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is oedema, spelled O-E-D-E-M-A.
Definition
- 1Standard spelling of edema.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oedema appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2004, Waltari, "What I Really Know", Rare Species. Crazy Angelina / Is eating her own oedema / And I'm not here to take it anymore
However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenh…
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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