zodiac sign
"zodiac-sign" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“zodiac sign” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of the twelve star signs corresponding to the constellations which make up the zodiac.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zodiac sign |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zodiac sign” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
zodiac sign is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of the twelve star signs corresponding to the constellations which make up the zodiac.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zodiac sign, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is zodiac sign, spelled Z-O-D-I-A-C- -S-I-G-N.
Definition
- 1Any of the twelve star signs corresponding to the constellations which make up the zodiac.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is Z-O-D-I-A-C- -S-I-G-N - 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.