symbiont
/sɪmˈbaɪ.ɒnt/
"symbiont" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“symbiont” is uncommon English (frequency #86,823 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,823
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An organism that lives in a symbiotic relationship.
Corpus desk
Index EN-symbiont · symbiont · English
symbiont · rank #86,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,823
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sylva
Nearest frequency peer: sylva (-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 “symbiont”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- swashbuckler
swashbuckler
13,183 corpus weight
- switchover
switchover
13,182 corpus weight
- sylva
sylva
13,179 corpus weight
- symbiont
symbiont
13,178 corpus weight
- synchronise
synchronise
13,177 corpus weight
- tabard
tabard
13,176 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “symbiont” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | symbiont |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪmˈbaɪ.ɒnt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “symbiont” in English
Rare enough to double-check
symbiont is uncommon English at frequency #86,823 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɪmˈbaɪ.ɒnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An organism that lives in a symbiotic relationship.".
Zero misspellings are on record for symbiont in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sym- + -biont. The correct English form is symbiont, spelled S-Y-M-B-I-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1An organism that lives in a symbiotic relationship.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how symbiont appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
It had been known that sponges somehow took in dissolved organic matter, but it remained unclear whether they could do it on their own or needed help from their bacterial symbionts.
Etymology
From sym- + -biont.
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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