strabismus
/stɹəˈbɪzməs/
"strabismus" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strabismus” is uncommon English (frequency #83,784 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,784
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.
Corpus desk
Index EN-strabismus · strabismus · English
strabismus · rank #83,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,784
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stonewalled
Nearest frequency peer: stonewalled (-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 “strabismus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stela
stela
16,223 corpus weight
- Stickney
Stickney
16,220 corpus weight
- stonewalled
stonewalled
16,218 corpus weight
- strabismus
strabismus
16,217 corpus weight
- subarctic
subarctic
16,215 corpus weight
- submarginal
submarginal
16,213 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “strabismus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strabismus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /stɹəˈbɪzməs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “strabismus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
strabismus is uncommon English at frequency #83,784 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /stɹəˈbɪzməs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for strabismus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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: Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus). The correct English form is strabismus, spelled S-T-R-A-B-I-S-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1A defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus).
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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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