psoriatic
"psoriatic" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“psoriatic” is uncommon English (frequency #85,670 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,670
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to or suffering from psoriasis.
Corpus desk
Index EN-psoriatic · psoriatic · English
psoriatic · rank #85,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,670
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH provincially
Nearest frequency peer: provincially (-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 “psoriatic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- prostration
prostration
14,334 corpus weight
- providential
providential
14,333 corpus weight
- provincially
provincially
14,332 corpus weight
- psoriatic
psoriatic
14,331 corpus weight
- psychopharm…
psychopharmacology
14,330 corpus weight
- psychosexual
psychosexual
14,329 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “psoriatic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psoriatic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “psoriatic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
psoriatic is uncommon English at frequency #85,670 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, pertaining to or suffering from psoriasis.".
Zero misspellings are on record for psoriatic in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is psoriatic, spelled P-S-O-R-I-A-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to or suffering from psoriasis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how psoriatic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He is a college professor who drinks heavily, suffers from terrible psoriatic arthritis and seems to loathe everything about what’s become of his life.
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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