succinate
"succinate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“succinate” is uncommon English (frequency #74,544 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,544
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any salt or ester of succinic acid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-succinate · succinate · English
succinate · rank #74,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,544
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subscript
Nearest frequency peer: subscript (-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 “succinate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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Stonehouse
25,462 corpus weight
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strikeforce
25,460 corpus weight
- subscript
subscript
25,459 corpus weight
- succinate
succinate
25,457 corpus weight
- supercomput…
supercomputing
25,455 corpus weight
- Surbiton
Surbiton
25,453 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “succinate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | succinate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “succinate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
succinate is uncommon English at frequency #74,544 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any salt or ester of succinic acid.".
succinate doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From succinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). The correct English form is succinate, spelled S-U-C-C-I-N-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Any salt or ester of succinic acid.
Etymology
From succinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
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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