stegosaurus
/ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːɹəs/
"stegosaurus" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stegosaurus” is uncommon English (frequency #82,810 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,810
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stegosaur, a member of the suborder Stegosauria, of the order Ornithischia of the middle Jurassic to early Cretaceous period.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stegosaurus · stegosaurus · English
stegosaurus · rank #82,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,810
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stonemason
Nearest frequency peer: stonemason (+3 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 “stegosaurus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Stace
Stace
17,197 corpus weight
- Stanger
Stanger
17,196 corpus weight
- stegosaurus
stegosaurus
17,191 corpus weight
- stonemason
stonemason
17,188 corpus weight
- striven
striven
17,186 corpus weight
- stroganoff
stroganoff
17,185 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stegosaurus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stegosaurus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːɹəs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stegosaurus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stegosaurus is uncommon English at frequency #82,810 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːɹəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for stegosaurus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the genus name Stegosaurus. From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”). The correct English form is stegosaurus, spelled S-T-E-G-O-S-A-U-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1A stegosaur, a member of the suborder Stegosauria, of the order Ornithischia of the middle Jurassic to early Cretaceous period.
- 2A member of the genus Stegosaurus within this suborder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stegosaurus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life."
So you tell your friends about it, including the people who have no interest in birding and wouldn't know a Le Conte's sparrow from a stegosaurus.
Etymology
From the genus name Stegosaurus. From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).
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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