recombinant
"recombinant" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“recombinant” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,311
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Formed by a new combination of existing elements.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recombinant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #31,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “recombinant” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around recombinant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,311 among 21,470 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for recombinant, with forms such as "ercombinant", "rceombinant", and "reccombinant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is recombinant, spelled R-E-C-O-M-B-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Formed by a new combination of existing elements.
- 2Formed by genetic recombination.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercombinant
- rceombinant
- reccombinant
- recmobinant
- recobminant
- recombbinant
- recombiannt
- recombinannt
- recombinantt
- recombinatn
- recombinnant
- recombinnat
- recombniant
- recomibnant
- recommbinant
- reocmbinant
- rrecombinant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recombinant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “recombinant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-C-O-M-B-I-N-A-N-T - 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.