viscera
/ˈvɪsəɹə/
"viscera" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“viscera” is uncommon English (frequency #63,355 among 7,391 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,355
- frequency rank, English
- 7,391
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of viscus
Corpus desk
Index EN-viscera · viscera · English
viscera · rank #63,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,355
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,391
- PHOTO-FINISH Visakhapatnam
Nearest frequency peer: Visakhapatnam (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “viscera”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- violator
violator
36,649 corpus weight
- Violette
Violette
36,648 corpus weight
- Visakhapatn…
Visakhapatnam
36,647 corpus weight
- viscera
viscera
36,646 corpus weight
- Volodymyr
Volodymyr
36,645 corpus weight
- waif
waif
36,643 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “viscera” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viscera |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɪsəɹə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “viscera” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
viscera is uncommon English at frequency #63,355 among 7,391 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈvɪsəɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of viscus".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for viscera, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin viscera (“internal organs; bowels”). The correct English form is viscera, spelled V-I-S-C-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1plural of viscus
Etymology
From Latin viscera (“internal organs; bowels”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.