sacral
/ˈseɪkɹəl/
"sacral" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sacral” is uncommon English (frequency #51,972 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,972
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of the sacrum.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sacral · sacral · English
sacral · rank #51,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,972
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sackville
Nearest frequency peer: Sackville (-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 “sacral”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sabo
sabo
48,031 corpus weight
- Sackville
Sackville
48,030 corpus weight
- sacral
sacral
48,029 corpus weight
- Samuelson
Samuelson
48,028 corpus weight
- Saracen
Saracen
48,027 corpus weight
- Sassoon
Sassoon
48,026 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sacral” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacral |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈseɪkɹəl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sacral” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sacral is uncommon English at frequency #51,972 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈseɪkɹəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sacral in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Modern Latin sacrālis, from Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”) + -ālis. The correct English form is sacral, spelled S-A-C-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of the sacrum.
- 2Sacred.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sacral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An old site with sacral connotations.
Compromise is awkward when religion is involved, and the several South Asian writing systems are considered sacral.
Etymology
From Modern Latin sacrālis, from Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”) + -ālis.
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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