sexology
"sexology" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sexology” is uncommon English (frequency #98,705 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,705
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The study of sex and sexuality, usually from a psychological or clinical perspective.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sexology · sexology · English
sexology · rank #98,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,705
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH separateness
Nearest frequency peer: separateness (-4 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 “sexology”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sensi
sensi
1,302 corpus weight
- separateness
separateness
1,300 corpus weight
- sexology
sexology
1,296 corpus weight
- shii
shii
1,291 corpus weight
- shipwright
shipwright
1,289 corpus weight
- shooing
shooing
1,288 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sexology” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sexology |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sexology” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sexology is uncommon English at frequency #98,705 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The study of sex and sexuality, usually from a psychological or clinical perspective.".
sexology has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sex + -ology. The correct English form is sexology, spelled S-E-X-O-L-O-G-Y.
Definition
- 1The study of sex and sexuality, usually from a psychological or clinical perspective.
Etymology
From sex + -ology.
Synonyms
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).