zirconia
/zɜːˈkəʊ.ni.ə/
"zirconia" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“zirconia” is uncommon English (frequency #51,519 among 2,810 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,519
- frequency rank, English
- 2,810
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingre...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zirconia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /zɜːˈkəʊ.ni.ə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zirconia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
zirconia is uncommon English at frequency #51,519 among 2,810 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /zɜːˈkəʊ.ni.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingre...".
Zero misspellings are on record for zirconia in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is zirconia, spelled Z-I-R-C-O-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummond light.
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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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- The one correct English spelling is Z-I-R-C-O-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.