recapitulatory
"recapitulatory" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“recapitulatory” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of the nature of a recapitulation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recapitulatory |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “recapitulatory” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
recapitulatory is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of the nature of a recapitulation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for recapitulatory, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is recapitulatory, spelled R-E-C-A-P-I-T-U-L-A-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Of the nature of a recapitulation.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “recapitulatory”
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- The one correct English spelling is R-E-C-A-P-I-T-U-L-A-T-O-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.