radiographic
"radiographic" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“radiographic” is uncommon English (frequency #57,000 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,000
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to radiography.
Corpus desk
Index EN-radiographic · radiographic · English
radiographic · rank #57,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,000
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH racquetball
Nearest frequency peer: racquetball (-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 “radiographic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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pummeled
43,007 corpus weight
- Qadri
Qadri
43,005 corpus weight
- quatre
quatre
43,004 corpus weight
- racquetball
racquetball
43,002 corpus weight
- radiographic
radiographic
43,001 corpus weight
- railroading
railroading
43,000 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “radiographic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radiographic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “radiographic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
radiographic is uncommon English at frequency #57,000 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to radiography.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for radiographic in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From radiography + -ic. The correct English form is radiographic, spelled R-A-D-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to radiography.
Etymology
From radiography + -ic.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).