podiatric
"podiatric" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“podiatric” is uncommon English (frequency #94,131 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,131
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to podiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the foot
Corpus desk
Index EN-podiatric · podiatric · English
podiatric · rank #94,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,131
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pluton
Nearest frequency peer: pluton (-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 “podiatric”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pillared
pillared
5,879 corpus weight
- pluton
pluton
5,871 corpus weight
- podiatric
podiatric
5,870 corpus weight
- poetess
poetess
5,869 corpus weight
- polecat
polecat
5,868 corpus weight
- pree
pree
5,862 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “podiatric” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | podiatric |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “podiatric” in English
Rare enough to double-check
podiatric is uncommon English at frequency #94,131 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to podiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the foot".
podiatric doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From podiatry + -ic or pod- + -iatric. The correct English form is podiatric, spelled P-O-D-I-A-T-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to podiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the foot
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how podiatric appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She graduated from the University of Michigan and received her degree in podiatric medicine from Temple University .
Etymology
From podiatry + -ic or pod- + -iatric.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).