snakebite
"snakebite" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“snakebite” is uncommon English (frequency #73,640 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,640
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The bite of a snake.
Corpus desk
Index EN-snakebite · snakebite · English
snakebite · rank #73,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,640
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Smriti
Nearest frequency peer: Smriti (-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 “snakebite”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shoegaze
shoegaze
26,367 corpus weight
- Smriti
Smriti
26,362 corpus weight
- snakebite
snakebite
26,361 corpus weight
- snowdrop
snowdrop
26,360 corpus weight
- SoCo
SoCo
26,358 corpus weight
- Sokolov
Sokolov
26,357 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “snakebite” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snakebite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “snakebite” in English
Rare enough to double-check
snakebite is uncommon English at frequency #73,640 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for snakebite, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Compound of snake + bite. The correct English form is snakebite, spelled S-N-A-K-E-B-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1The bite of a snake.
- 2A drink made by mixing hard cider and lager.
- 3Either of a pair of lip piercings below the lower lip, resembling the fangs of a snake.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how snakebite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mohamed's father said his son was a studious young man with a passion for soccer. "He was someone that we all thought would go very far," he said. Mohamed was the third member of his family to suffer a fatal snakebite within 12 months.
For Tim Friede, who's now the director of herpetology at Centivax, it's about helping the people impacted by venomous snakebites worldwide. When he heard that his antibodies had helped create this new antivenom cocktail, he says he was happy.
Etymology
Compound of snake + bite.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).