synchronise
"synchronise" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“synchronise” is uncommon English (frequency #86,824 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,824
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of synchronize.
Corpus desk
Index EN-synchronise · synchronise · English
synchronise · rank #86,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,824
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH symbiont
Nearest frequency peer: symbiont (-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 “synchronise”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Takara
Takara
13,173 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “synchronise” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | synchronise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “synchronise” in English
Rare enough to double-check
synchronise is uncommon English at frequency #86,824 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of synchronize.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for synchronise in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek συγχρονίζω (sunkhronízō), equivalent to syn- + chrono- + -ise. The correct English form is synchronise, spelled S-Y-N-C-H-R-O-N-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of synchronize.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek συγχρονίζω (sunkhronízō), equivalent to syn- + chrono- + -ise.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).