venturi
/vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/
"venturi" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“venturi” is uncommon English (frequency #50,885 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,885
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A venturi tube.
Corpus desk
Index EN-venturi · venturi · English
venturi · rank #50,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,885
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vestige
Nearest frequency peer: vestige (+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 “venturi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- vacuous
vacuous
49,121 corpus weight
- venturi
venturi
49,116 corpus weight
- vestige
vestige
49,115 corpus weight
- vibrancy
vibrancy
49,114 corpus weight
- Vicodin
Vicodin
49,113 corpus weight
- vindicate
vindicate
49,112 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “venturi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | venturi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “venturi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
venturi is uncommon English at frequency #50,885 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for venturi, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist. The correct English form is venturi, spelled V-E-N-T-U-R-I.
Definition
- 1A venturi tube.
- 2The throat of a carburetor.
- 3A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how venturi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading.
Etymology
After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).