shamanic
/ʃəˈmænɪk/
"shamanic" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shamanic” is uncommon English (frequency #60,457 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,457
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to a shaman or to shamanism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shamanic · shamanic · English
shamanic · rank #60,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,457
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shafted
Nearest frequency peer: shafted (-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 “shamanic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- serjeant
serjeant
39,547 corpus weight
- SFM
SFM
39,546 corpus weight
- shafted
shafted
39,545 corpus weight
- shamanic
shamanic
39,544 corpus weight
- shapeless
shapeless
39,543 corpus weight
- shelve
shelve
39,540 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shamanic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shamanic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ʃəˈmænɪk/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shamanic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shamanic is uncommon English at frequency #60,457 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ʃəˈmænɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or relating to a shaman or to shamanism.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for shamanic, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From shaman + -ic. The correct English form is shamanic, spelled S-H-A-M-A-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to a shaman or to shamanism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shamanic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ring sees both the NDE and UFOE as modern day shamanic initiations in which the journeyer (NDEer or UFOer) enters an "imaginal" reality, an alternative reality that coexists with physical reality and that is equally real.
Etymology
From shaman + -ic.
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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