regicide
/ˈɹɛ.d͡ʒə.saɪd/
"regicide" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“regicide” is uncommon English (frequency #78,069 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,069
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The killing of a king.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regicide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɛ.d͡ʒə.saɪd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “regicide” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
regicide is uncommon English at frequency #78,069 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹɛ.d͡ʒə.saɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The killing of a king.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for regicide, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin rēgicidium (“king-killing”) The correct English form is regicide, spelled R-E-G-I-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1The killing of a king.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin rēgicidium (“king-killing”)
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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Using “regicide”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-G-I-C-I-D-E - 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.