parathyroid
"parathyroid" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parathyroid” is uncommon English (frequency #64,598 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,598
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Situated near the thyroid gland.
Corpus desk
Index EN-parathyroid · parathyroid · English
parathyroid · rank #64,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,598
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH papyri
Nearest frequency peer: papyri (-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 “parathyroid”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Owensboro
Owensboro
35,406 corpus weight
- owings
owings
35,405 corpus weight
- papyri
papyri
35,404 corpus weight
- parathyroid
parathyroid
35,403 corpus weight
- partie
partie
35,402 corpus weight
- Patiala
Patiala
35,401 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “parathyroid” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parathyroid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “parathyroid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
parathyroid is uncommon English at frequency #64,598 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for parathyroid, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From para- + thyroid. The correct English form is parathyroid, spelled P-A-R-A-T-H-Y-R-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1Situated near the thyroid gland.
- 2Pertaining to the parathyroid glands or their extracts.
Etymology
From para- + thyroid.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).