satiric
"satiric" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“satiric” is uncommon English (frequency #68,615 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,615
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to satire.
Corpus desk
Index EN-satiric · satiric · English
satiric · rank #68,615 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,615
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sarai
Nearest frequency peer: sarai (-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 “satiric”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sanna
Sanna
31,388 corpus weight
- sarai
sarai
31,387 corpus weight
- satiric
satiric
31,386 corpus weight
- Sausalito
Sausalito
31,384 corpus weight
- scarp
scarp
31,383 corpus weight
- schemer
schemer
31,382 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “satiric” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | satiric |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “satiric” in English
Rare enough to double-check
satiric is uncommon English at frequency #68,615 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to satire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for satiric, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French satirique, from Late Latin satiricus. The correct English form is satiric, spelled S-A-T-I-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to satire.
Etymology
From Middle French satirique, from Late Latin satiricus.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).