roid
/ɹɔɪd/
"roid" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“roid” is uncommon English (frequency #81,776 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,776
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Clipping of steroid Steroids, especially those used illegally for performance enhancement.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roid · roid · English
roid · rank #81,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,776
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 21,470
- PHOTO-FINISH roguish
Nearest frequency peer: roguish (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “roid”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Rockwall
Rockwall
18,228 corpus weight
- Roddenberry
Roddenberry
18,227 corpus weight
- roguish
roguish
18,226 corpus weight
- roid
roid
18,225 corpus weight
- roiling
roiling
18,224 corpus weight
- Romanization
Romanization
18,222 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “roid” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹɔɪd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roid” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
roid is uncommon English at frequency #81,776 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹɔɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
roid doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is roid, spelled R-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1Clipping of steroid Steroids, especially those used illegally for performance enhancement.
- 2Clipping of hemorrhoid Hemorrhoids.
- 3Clipping of android
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.