parodic
"parodic" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parodic” is uncommon English (frequency #95,240 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,240
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.
Corpus desk
Index EN-parodic · parodic · English
parodic · rank #95,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,240
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH parachutist
Nearest frequency peer: parachutist (-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 “parodic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pannier
pannier
4,764 corpus weight
- parachutist
parachutist
4,762 corpus weight
- parodic
parodic
4,761 corpus weight
- Paros
Paros
4,760 corpus weight
- particulary
particulary
4,759 corpus weight
- pashmina
pashmina
4,758 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “parodic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parodic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “parodic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
parodic is uncommon English at frequency #95,240 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.".
Zero misspellings are on record for parodic in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 parodic, spelled P-A-R-O-D-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parodic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All gender is parodic in the sense that it is all imitative, but some forms are more parodic than others because that imitativeness is exposed.
From this common background, the G author/redactor seems to have chosen to highlight the more parodic elements in the tradition, while muting the more serious or somber representation of Aesop's heroic end.
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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