pedagogic
/ˌpɛdəˈɡɒd͡ʒɪk/
"pedagogic" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pedagogic” is uncommon English (frequency #83,608 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,608
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of pedagogical.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pedagogic · pedagogic · English
pedagogic · rank #83,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,608
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pearland
Nearest frequency peer: Pearland (-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 “pedagogic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Parveen
Parveen
16,396 corpus weight
- Patmos
Patmos
16,395 corpus weight
- Pearland
Pearland
16,394 corpus weight
- pedagogic
pedagogic
16,393 corpus weight
- penalise
penalise
16,391 corpus weight
- penfold
penfold
16,390 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pedagogic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pedagogic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌpɛdəˈɡɒd͡ʒɪk/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pedagogic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pedagogic is uncommon English at frequency #83,608 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌpɛdəˈɡɒd͡ʒɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of pedagogical.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pedagogic, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in 1781. From French pédagogique, from Latin paedagōgicus, pēdagōgicus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγικός (paidagōgikós), from παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós, “teacher, tutor”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἄγω (ágō, “I lead”). The correct English form is pedagogic, spelled P-E-D-A-G-O-G-I-C.
Definition
- 1Synonym of pedagogical.
Etymology
First attested in 1781. From French pédagogique, from Latin paedagōgicus, pēdagōgicus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγικός (paidagōgikós), from παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós, “teacher, tutor”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἄγω (ágō, “I lead”).
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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