yersinia
"yersinia" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yersinia” is uncommon English (frequency #90,081 among 2,763 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,081
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yersinia · yersinia · English
yersinia · rank #90,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,081
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,763
- PHOTO-FINISH Yehudi
Nearest frequency peer: Yehudi (-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 “yersinia”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- worming
worming
9,925 corpus weight
- Yalu
Yalu
9,922 corpus weight
- Yehudi
Yehudi
9,921 corpus weight
- yersinia
yersinia
9,920 corpus weight
- Yukawa
Yukawa
9,918 corpus weight
- Yuli
Yuli
9,917 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yersinia” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yersinia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yersinia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yersinia is uncommon English at frequency #90,081 among 2,763 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.".
No misspelling variants are generated for yersinia in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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: Borrowed from translingual Yersinia. The correct English form is yersinia, spelled Y-E-R-S-I-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Yersinia.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 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.