strix
"strix" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strix” is uncommon English (frequency #63,283 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,283
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A bird-like demon feeding on human flesh and blood.
Corpus desk
Index EN-strix · strix · English
strix · rank #63,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,283
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH streetwise
Nearest frequency peer: streetwise (-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 “strix”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Stowell
Stowell
36,721 corpus weight
- streetlight
streetlight
36,720 corpus weight
- streetwise
streetwise
36,719 corpus weight
- strix
strix
36,718 corpus weight
- studiously
studiously
36,717 corpus weight
- submariner
submariner
36,715 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “strix” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strix |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “strix” in English
Rare enough to double-check
strix is uncommon English at frequency #63,283 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A bird-like demon feeding on human flesh and blood.".
No misspelling variants are generated for strix in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin strix, from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx, “screecher”). The correct English form is strix, spelled S-T-R-I-X.
Definition
- 1A bird-like demon feeding on human flesh and blood.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how strix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What was distinctive about the strix was that […] it resembled an owl, or (to a lesser extent) a bat, being a winged, clawed creature, which flew by night and had a hideous screeching cry.
Etymology
From Latin strix, from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx, “screecher”).
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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