spasticity
"spasticity" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spasticity” is uncommon English (frequency #75,434 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,434
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state, quality or property of being spastic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spasticity · spasticity · English
spasticity · rank #75,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,434
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH soothsayer
Nearest frequency peer: soothsayer (-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 “spasticity”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Solway
Solway
24,571 corpus weight
- Somoza
Somoza
24,570 corpus weight
- soothsayer
soothsayer
24,569 corpus weight
- spasticity
spasticity
24,567 corpus weight
- specular
specular
24,565 corpus weight
- spironolact…
spironolactone
24,563 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spasticity” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spasticity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spasticity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spasticity is uncommon English at frequency #75,434 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state, quality or property of being spastic.".
No misspelling variants are generated for spasticity in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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 spastic + -ity. The correct English form is spasticity, spelled S-P-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The state, quality or property of being spastic.
Etymology
From spastic + -ity.
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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