organelle
/ˌɔɹ.ɡənˈɛl/
"organelle" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“organelle” is uncommon English (frequency #81,653 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,653
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles).
Corpus desk
Index EN-organelle · organelle · English
organelle · rank #81,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,653
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH oratorical
Nearest frequency peer: oratorical (-2 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 “organelle”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- oratorical
oratorical
18,350 corpus weight
- organelle
organelle
18,348 corpus weight
- ossified
ossified
18,346 corpus weight
- ostentatiou…
ostentatiously
18,345 corpus weight
- osteomyelit…
osteomyelitis
18,344 corpus weight
- Otsuka
Otsuka
18,342 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “organelle” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | organelle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɔɹ.ɡənˈɛl/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “organelle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
organelle is uncommon English at frequency #81,653 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɔɹ.ɡənˈɛl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles).".
organelle has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From organ + -elle. The correct English form is organelle, spelled O-R-G-A-N-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how organelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Like organelles within a single cell, whole new specializations began to develop.
The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
Etymology
From organ + -elle.
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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