silicones
"silicones" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“silicones” is uncommon English (frequency #79,977 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,977
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of silicone
Corpus desk
Index EN-silicones · silicones · English
silicones · rank #79,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,977
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sida
Nearest frequency peer: sida (-2 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 “silicones”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shoehorn
shoehorn
20,030 corpus weight
- shrove
shrove
20,029 corpus weight
- shrubby
shrubby
20,028 corpus weight
- sida
sida
20,026 corpus weight
- silicones
silicones
20,024 corpus weight
- sixtieth
sixtieth
20,020 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “silicones” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silicones |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “silicones” in English
Rare enough to double-check
silicones is uncommon English at frequency #79,977 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for silicones in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is silicones, spelled S-I-L-I-C-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of silicone
- 2Breasts that have been enhanced or reconstructed with silicone breast implants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silicones appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Oh, G,” said the siren, leaning over the booth, shaking her silicones in Grand's grill. “Did you see my new tattoo?” Pulling her halter aside, the flirt revealed her new tat, Grand scrawled across her breast.
His thirty year younger wife, Monica, has apparently graduated with a magna cum laude honors degree from an Ivy League, but obviously lost it somewhere down the line when she visited her plastic surgeon; double D silicones and Botoxed face!
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).