spondylitis
"spondylitis" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spondylitis” is uncommon English (frequency #80,904 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,904
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation of the spine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spondylitis · spondylitis · English
spondylitis · rank #80,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,904
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spic
Nearest frequency peer: spic (-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 “spondylitis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- softwares
softwares
19,101 corpus weight
- Somerton
Somerton
19,100 corpus weight
- spic
spic
19,099 corpus weight
- spondylitis
spondylitis
19,097 corpus weight
- Spotsylvania
Spotsylvania
19,095 corpus weight
- springwood
springwood
19,093 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spondylitis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “spondylitis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spondylitis is uncommon English at frequency #80,904 among 6,566 “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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).