relaxant
/ɹɪˈlæksənt/
"relaxant" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“relaxant” is uncommon English (frequency #70,203 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,203
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A drug or other agent that promotes relaxation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-relaxant · relaxant · English
relaxant · rank #70,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,203
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reinterpret
Nearest frequency peer: reinterpret (-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 “relaxant”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- refurb
refurb
29,801 corpus weight
- regularizat…
regularization
29,800 corpus weight
- reinterpret
reinterpret
29,799 corpus weight
- relaxant
relaxant
29,798 corpus weight
- renege
renege
29,796 corpus weight
- repairable
repairable
29,795 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “relaxant” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relaxant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈlæksənt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “relaxant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
relaxant is uncommon English at frequency #70,203 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹɪˈlæksənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A drug or other agent that promotes relaxation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for relaxant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is relaxant, spelled R-E-L-A-X-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1A drug or other agent that promotes relaxation.
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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