reductionist
"reductionist" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reductionist” is uncommon English (frequency #66,976 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,976
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, or relating to reductionism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reductionist · reductionist · English
reductionist · rank #66,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,976
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reevaluation
Nearest frequency peer: reevaluation (+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 “reductionist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reassign
reassign
33,029 corpus weight
- reductionist
reductionist
33,025 corpus weight
- reevaluation
reevaluation
33,024 corpus weight
- regulus
regulus
33,023 corpus weight
- rehydration
rehydration
33,022 corpus weight
- Reigate
Reigate
33,021 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reductionist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reductionist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reductionist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reductionist is uncommon English at frequency #66,976 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, or relating to reductionism.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for reductionist in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From reduction + -ist. The correct English form is reductionist, spelled R-E-D-U-C-T-I-O-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Of, or relating to reductionism.
Etymology
From reduction + -ist.
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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