palmitate
"palmitate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“palmitate” is uncommon English (frequency #97,408 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,408
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any salt or ester of palmitic acid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-palmitate · palmitate · English
palmitate · rank #97,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,408
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Palladino
Nearest frequency peer: Palladino (-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 “palmitate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- PageRank
PageRank
2,596 corpus weight
- Pakis
Pakis
2,595 corpus weight
- Palladino
Palladino
2,594 corpus weight
- palmitate
palmitate
2,593 corpus weight
- palooza
palooza
2,592 corpus weight
- panadol
panadol
2,590 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “palmitate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palmitate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “palmitate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
palmitate is uncommon English at frequency #97,408 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any salt or ester of palmitic acid.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for palmitate, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From palmitic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). The correct English form is palmitate, spelled P-A-L-M-I-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Any salt or ester of palmitic acid.
Etymology
From palmitic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
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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