strictures
"strictures" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strictures” is uncommon English (frequency #52,653 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,653
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of stricture
Corpus desk
Index EN-strictures · strictures · English
strictures · rank #52,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,653
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sublimation
Nearest frequency peer: sublimation (+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 “strictures”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stephane
stephane
47,353 corpus weight
- stowaway
stowaway
47,351 corpus weight
- strictures
strictures
47,348 corpus weight
- sublimation
sublimation
47,346 corpus weight
- suboptimal
suboptimal
47,345 corpus weight
- subsea
subsea
47,344 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “strictures” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strictures |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “strictures” in English
Rare enough to double-check
strictures is uncommon English at frequency #52,653 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of stricture".
No misspelling variants are generated for strictures in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 strictures, spelled S-T-R-I-C-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of stricture
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how strictures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Harry doubted that Snape had even heard her strictures on Mulciber and Avery.
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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