testis
"testis" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“testis” is uncommon English (frequency #57,765 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,765
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A testicle of a vertebrate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-testis · testis · English
testis · rank #57,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,765
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH temporally
Nearest frequency peer: temporally (-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 “testis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tartarus
Tartarus
42,242 corpus weight
- teeter
teeter
42,240 corpus weight
- temporally
temporally
42,237 corpus weight
- testis
testis
42,236 corpus weight
- theatrically
theatrically
42,234 corpus weight
- threadbare
threadbare
42,231 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “testis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | testis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “testis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
testis is uncommon English at frequency #57,765 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for testis, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin testis. The correct English form is testis, spelled T-E-S-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1A testicle of a vertebrate.
- 2An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how testis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin testis.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).