probiotic
"probiotic" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“probiotic” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,272
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A food or dietary supplement, such as a yogurt, containing live bacteria for therapeutic reasons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | probiotic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “probiotic” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around probiotic, anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,272 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A food or dietary supplement, such as a yogurt, containing live bacteria for therapeutic reasons.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for probiotic, with forms such as "porbiotic", "pprobiotic", and "prboiotic". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pro- + -biotic. The correct English form is probiotic, spelled P-R-O-B-I-O-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1A food or dietary supplement, such as a yogurt, containing live bacteria for therapeutic reasons.
Etymology
From pro- + -biotic.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porbiotic
- pprobiotic
- prboiotic
- probbiotic
- probioitc
- probiotci
- probioticc
- probiottic
- probitoic
- proboitic
- proibotic
- prrobiotic
- rpobiotic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of probiotic - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “probiotic”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-O-B-I-O-T-I-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.