stereotactic
"stereotactic" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stereotactic” is uncommon English (frequency #89,946 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,946
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stereotaxic
Corpus desk
Index EN-stereotactic · stereotactic · English
stereotactic · rank #89,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,946
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stereochemist…
Nearest frequency peer: stereochemistry (-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 “stereotactic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stakeout
stakeout
10,061 corpus weight
- stereochemi…
stereochemistry
10,056 corpus weight
- stereotactic
stereotactic
10,055 corpus weight
- sternal
sternal
10,054 corpus weight
- stripling
stripling
10,051 corpus weight
- subcortical
subcortical
10,049 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stereotactic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stereotactic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #89,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stereotactic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stereotactic is uncommon English at frequency #89,946 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "stereotaxic".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stereotactic in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is stereotactic, spelled S-T-E-R-E-O-T-A-C-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1stereotaxic
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stereotactic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ballantine performed a bilateral anterior stereotactic cingulotomy on Kapp at Massachusetts General Hospital on July 24, 1974, when she was 20 years old.
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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