vertiginous
/vɜː(ɹ)ˈtɪd͡ʒɪnəs/
"vertiginous" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vertiginous” is uncommon English (frequency #93,296 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,296
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vertiginous · vertiginous · English
vertiginous · rank #93,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,296
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vertu
Nearest frequency peer: vertu (+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 “vertiginous”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- vario
vario
6,711 corpus weight
- ventriloqui…
ventriloquism
6,707 corpus weight
- vertiginous
vertiginous
6,705 corpus weight
- vertu
vertu
6,704 corpus weight
- vira
vira
6,700 corpus weight
- vires
vires
6,699 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vertiginous” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vertiginous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /vɜː(ɹ)ˈtɪd͡ʒɪnəs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vertiginous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vertiginous is uncommon English at frequency #93,296 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /vɜː(ɹ)ˈtɪd͡ʒɪnəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vertiginous, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French vertigineux, from Latin vertīginōsus. The correct English form is vertiginous, spelled V-E-R-T-I-G-I-N-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.
- 2Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).
- 3Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).
- 4Revolving; rotating; rotatory.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vertiginous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
GPT-4 didn’t give me an existential crisis. But it exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I’ve been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately.
Etymology
From Middle French vertigineux, from Latin vertīginōsus.
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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