polysaccharide
"polysaccharide" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“polysaccharide” is uncommon English (frequency #69,347 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,347
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A polymer made of many saccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds.
Corpus desk
Index EN-polysaccharide · polysaccharide · English
polysaccharide · rank #69,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,347
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH ponty
Nearest frequency peer: ponty (+2 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “polysaccharide”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- podiatrist
podiatrist
30,659 corpus weight
- Pollyanna
Pollyanna
30,657 corpus weight
- polysacchar…
polysaccharide
30,654 corpus weight
- ponty
ponty
30,652 corpus weight
- Potemkin
Potemkin
30,651 corpus weight
- Powhatan
Powhatan
30,650 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “polysaccharide” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polysaccharide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #69,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “polysaccharide” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
polysaccharide is uncommon English at frequency #69,347 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A polymer made of many saccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for polysaccharide, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From poly- + saccharide. The correct English form is polysaccharide, spelled P-O-L-Y-S-A-C-C-H-A-R-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1A polymer made of many saccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polysaccharide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meronym: saccharide
Cellulose, starches, and complex carbohydrates, such as glycogen, are common polysaccharides in biology.
Etymology
From poly- + saccharide.
Synonyms
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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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