reducible
"reducible" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reducible” is uncommon English (frequency #71,048 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,048
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capable of being reduced.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reducible · reducible · English
reducible · rank #71,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,048
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Redbridge
Nearest frequency peer: Redbridge (-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 “reducible”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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realpolitik
28,957 corpus weight
- rearmament
rearmament
28,956 corpus weight
- reciprocati…
reciprocation
28,955 corpus weight
- Redbridge
Redbridge
28,954 corpus weight
- reducible
reducible
28,953 corpus weight
- Reitman
Reitman
28,950 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reducible” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reducible |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reducible” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reducible is uncommon English at frequency #71,048 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
reducible has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From reduce + -ible. The correct English form is reducible, spelled R-E-D-U-C-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Capable of being reduced.
- 2Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as x²-1.
- 3Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
- 4Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
Etymology
From reduce + -ible.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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