stillbirth
"stillbirth" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stillbirth” is uncommon English (frequency #59,046 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,046
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stillbirth · stillbirth · English
stillbirth · rank #59,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,046
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Storrs
Nearest frequency peer: Storrs (+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 “stillbirth”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- spurrier
spurrier
40,960 corpus weight
- stillbirth
stillbirth
40,955 corpus weight
- Storrs
Storrs
40,953 corpus weight
- strappy
strappy
40,952 corpus weight
- stratus
stratus
40,951 corpus weight
- stressor
stressor
40,950 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stillbirth” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stillbirth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stillbirth” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stillbirth is uncommon English at frequency #59,046 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stillbirth, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From still + birth. The correct English form is stillbirth, spelled S-T-I-L-L-B-I-R-T-H.
Definition
- 1The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
- 2The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stillbirth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child.
Etymology
From still + birth.
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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