phosphatidylinositol
"phosphatidylinositol" is a 20-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“phosphatidylinositol” is an uncommon English word, ranked #99,701 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #99,701
- frequency rank, English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - a phospholipid containing inositol
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phosphatidylinositol |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 20 |
| Frequency rank | #99,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “phosphatidylinositol” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for phosphatidylinositol is 20 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #99,701 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "a phospholipid containing inositol".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for phosphatidylinositol, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From phosphatidyl + inositol. The correct English form is phosphatidylinositol, spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-A-T-I-D-Y-L-I-N-O-S-I-T-O-L.
Definition
- 1a phospholipid containing inositol
Etymology
From phosphatidyl + inositol.
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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- The one correct English spelling is P-H-O-S-P-H-A-T-I-D-Y-L-I-N-O-S-I-T-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.