Reticulum
"reticulum" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Reticulum” is uncommon English (frequency #52,597 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,597
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small constellation of the southern summer sky, said to resemble a reticle. It lies between the constellations of Horologium and Dorado.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reticulum · Reticulum · English
Reticulum · rank #52,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,597
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH replenishing
Nearest frequency peer: replenishing (-2 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 “Reticulum”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reinterpret…
reinterpretation
47,408 corpus weight
- rejuvenating
rejuvenating
47,407 corpus weight
- replenishing
replenishing
47,406 corpus weight
- Reticulum
Reticulum
47,404 corpus weight
- RIF
RIF
47,402 corpus weight
- righting
righting
47,401 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Reticulum” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Reticulum |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Reticulum” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Reticulum is uncommon English at frequency #52,597 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Reticulum, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From later Latin rēticulum (“reticle”). The meaning is often wrongly interpreted as "net", which is an older meaning of the Latin root word. Doublet of reticle, reticule, and reticulum. The correct English form is Reticulum, spelled R-E-T-I-C-U-L-U-M.
Definition
- 1A small constellation of the southern summer sky, said to resemble a reticle. It lies between the constellations of Horologium and Dorado.
- 2Classified as two of 23 "Southern Asterisms" (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngqū)
Etymology
Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From later Latin rēticulum (“reticle”). The meaning is often wrongly interpreted as "net", which is an older meaning of the Latin root word. Doublet of reticle, reticule, and reticulum.
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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