structuralism
"structuralism" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“structuralism” is uncommon English (frequency #67,864 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,864
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | structuralism |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #67,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “structuralism” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
structuralism is uncommon English at frequency #67,864 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for structuralism in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From structural + -ism. The correct English form is structuralism, spelled S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-A-L-I-S-M.
Definition
- 1A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure.
- 2A school of biological thought that deals with the law-like behaviour of the structure of organisms and how it can change, emphasising that organisms are wholes, and therefore that change in one part must necessarily take into account the inter-connected nature of the entire organism.
- 3The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence.
- 4A school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness, how they are organized into more complex experiences, and how these mental phenomena correlate with physical events.
- 5In the philosophy of mathematics, a theory that holds that mathematical theories describe structures, and that mathematical objects are exhaustively defined by their place in such structures.
Etymology
From structural + -ism.
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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Using “structuralism”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-A-L-I-S-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.