birthstone
"birthstone" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“birthstone” is uncommon English (frequency #63,463 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,463
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of twelve gemstones traditionally associated with the month of one's birth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-birthstone · birthstone · English
birthstone · rank #63,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,463
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH birther
Nearest frequency peer: birther (-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 “birthstone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- biosecurity
biosecurity
36,542 corpus weight
- bipartisans…
bipartisanship
36,541 corpus weight
- birther
birther
36,539 corpus weight
- birthstone
birthstone
36,538 corpus weight
- Björk
Björk
36,536 corpus weight
- Boehm
Boehm
36,534 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “birthstone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | birthstone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “birthstone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
birthstone is uncommon English at frequency #63,463 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
birthstone has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From birth + stone. The correct English form is birthstone, spelled B-I-R-T-H-S-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Any of twelve gemstones traditionally associated with the month of one's birth.
- 2Any of a similar list of less costly substitutes.
Etymology
From birth + stone.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).