spondylitis
"spondylitis" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spondylitis” is uncommon English (frequency #80,904 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,904
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Inflammation of the spine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spondylitis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spondylitis” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
spondylitis is uncommon English at frequency #80,904 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation of the spine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for spondylitis, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Latin spondylus (“vertebra”) + -itis The correct English form is spondylitis, spelled S-P-O-N-D-Y-L-I-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Inflammation of the spine.
Etymology
Latin spondylus (“vertebra”) + -itis
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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Using “spondylitis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-P-O-N-D-Y-L-I-T-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.