apiary
/ˈeɪ.pi.ə.ɹi/
"apiary" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“apiary” is uncommon English (frequency #93,401 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,401
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place where bees and their hives are kept.
Corpus desk
Index EN-apiary · apiary · English
apiary · rank #93,401 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,401
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH antivenom
Nearest frequency peer: antivenom (-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 “apiary”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- anthill
anthill
6,602 corpus weight
- antivenom
antivenom
6,601 corpus weight
- apiary
apiary
6,600 corpus weight
- apolipoprot…
apolipoprotein
6,599 corpus weight
- appliqué
appliqué
6,598 corpus weight
- Arakawa
Arakawa
6,597 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “apiary” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apiary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈeɪ.pi.ə.ɹi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “apiary” in English
Rare enough to double-check
apiary is uncommon English at frequency #93,401 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈeɪ.pi.ə.ɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A place where bees and their hives are kept.".
No misspelling variants are generated for apiary in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: 17th century, from Latin apiārium, from apis (“bee”). The correct English form is apiary, spelled A-P-I-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A place where bees and their hives are kept.
Etymology
17th century, from Latin apiārium, from apis (“bee”).
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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