psoriasis
/səˈɹaɪ.əsɪs/
"psoriasis" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“psoriasis” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,379. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,379
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.
Corpus desk
Index EN-psoriasis · psoriasis · English
psoriasis · rank #33,379 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,379
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH putty
Nearest frequency peer: putty (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “psoriasis”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- primes
primes
66,626 corpus weight
- priming
priming
66,625 corpus weight
- princely
princely
66,624 corpus weight
- psoriasis
psoriasis
66,622 corpus weight
- putty
putty
66,621 corpus weight
- quench
quench
66,620 corpus weight
What this shows “psoriasis” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psoriasis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /səˈɹaɪ.əsɪs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “psoriasis”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around psoriasis (IPA /səˈɹaɪ.əsɪs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,379 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for psoriasis, with forms such as "posriasis", "ppsoriasis", and "psoirasis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Latin psōriasis (“mange, scurvy, psoriasis”), from Koine Greek ψωρίασις (psōríasis), from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”) + -σις (-sis, “-sis: forming nouns of action & medical disorders”). Cognate with psora. The correct English form is psoriasis, spelled P-S-O-R-I-A-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how psoriasis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He suffers from a skin complaint, psoriasis, which has rendered his hands scaly, hard and red.
Etymology
From Late Latin psōriasis (“mange, scurvy, psoriasis”), from Koine Greek ψωρίασις (psōríasis), from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”) + -σις (-sis, “-sis: forming nouns of action & medical disorders”). Cognate with psora.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- posriasis
- ppsoriasis
- psoirasis
- psoraisis
- psoriaiss
- psoriasiss
- psoriassi
- psoriassis
- psorisais
- psorriasis
- psroiasis
- pssoriasis
- sporiasis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of psoriasis - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "psoriasis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).