sarcophagi
/sɑːˈkɒfəɡaɪ/
"sarcophagi" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sarcophagi” is uncommon English (frequency #83,710 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,710
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of sarcophagus
Corpus desk
Index EN-sarcophagi · sarcophagi · English
sarcophagi · rank #83,710 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,710
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sarsaparilla
Nearest frequency peer: sarsaparilla (+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 “sarcophagi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Safar
Safar
16,298 corpus weight
- Samburu
Samburu
16,296 corpus weight
- sandlot
sandlot
16,293 corpus weight
- sarcophagi
sarcophagi
16,291 corpus weight
- sarsaparilla
sarsaparilla
16,290 corpus weight
- satori
satori
16,287 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sarcophagi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarcophagi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɑːˈkɒfəɡaɪ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sarcophagi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sarcophagi is uncommon English at frequency #83,710 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɑːˈkɒfəɡaɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of sarcophagus".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sarcophagi, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin sarcophagī, from sarcophagus + -ī (suffix denoting the nominative or vocative plural form of a word ending in -us). The correct English form is sarcophagi, spelled S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-I.
Definition
- 1plural of sarcophagus
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sarcophagi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On closer inspection the coffins seemed to be more like sarcophagi. They stood about waist high and were constructed of what appeared to be white marble, […]
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sarcophagī, from sarcophagus + -ī (suffix denoting the nominative or vocative plural form of a word ending in -us).
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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