terrorise
"terrorise" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“terrorise” is uncommon English (frequency #82,849 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,849
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of terrorize.
Corpus desk
Index EN-terrorise · terrorise · English
terrorise · rank #82,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,849
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Teotihuacan
Nearest frequency peer: Teotihuacan (-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 “terrorise”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- telepath
telepath
17,156 corpus weight
- tendonitis
tendonitis
17,154 corpus weight
- Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan
17,153 corpus weight
- terrorise
terrorise
17,152 corpus weight
- testator
testator
17,151 corpus weight
- throwed
throwed
17,149 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “terrorise” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrorise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “terrorise” in English
Rare enough to double-check
terrorise is uncommon English at frequency #82,849 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of terrorize.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for terrorise, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From terror + -ise. The correct English form is terrorise, spelled T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of terrorize.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how terrorise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head…
Etymology
From terror + -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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).