allelopathy
/ˌæləlˈɒpəθi/noun
allelopathy is spelled A-L-L-E-L-O-P-A-T-H-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is alleopathy: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Allelopathy is a noun meaning “The release by a plant of a toxin to suppress growth of nearby competing plants”.
How do you spell allelopathy?
Allelopathy is spelled A-L-L-E-L-O-P-A-T-H-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for allelopathy in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does allelopathy mean?
noun
- 1
The release by a plant of a toxin to suppress growth of nearby competing plants.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce allelopathy?
- /ˌæləlˈɒpəθi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is allelopathy?
Allelopathy appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Allelopathy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense release by a plant of a toxin to suppress growth of nearby competing plants:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Allelopathie |
| Portuguese | alelopatia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does allelopathy come from?
From allelo- + -pathy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).