brassica
/ˈbɹæs.ɪ.kə/
"brassica" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brassica” is uncommon English (frequency #71,352 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,352
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brassica |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹæs.ɪ.kə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brassica” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
brassica is uncommon English at frequency #71,352 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɹæs.ɪ.kə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brassica, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin brassica. The correct English form is brassica, spelled B-R-A-S-S-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin brassica.
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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Using “brassica”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-R-A-S-S-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbɹæs.ɪ.kə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.