vitiligo
/ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/
"vitiligo" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vitiligo” is uncommon English (frequency #64,109 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,109
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vitiligo · vitiligo · English
vitiligo · rank #64,109 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,109
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vina
Nearest frequency peer: vina (-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 “vitiligo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Vietcong
Vietcong
35,894 corpus weight
- vina
vina
35,893 corpus weight
- vitiligo
vitiligo
35,892 corpus weight
- volunteerism
volunteerism
35,891 corpus weight
- Vyacheslav
Vyacheslav
35,889 corpus weight
- WANA
WANA
35,888 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vitiligo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vitiligo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vitiligo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vitiligo is uncommon English at frequency #64,109 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vitiligo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō. The correct English form is vitiligo, spelled V-I-T-I-L-I-G-O.
Definition
- 1The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
- 2Alphos, a form of leprosy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vitiligo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the weeks that followed, I began to notice other people with vitiligo. On the streets, in the stores, in their cars. My God, they were everywhere!
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō.
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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