calendula
"calendula" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“calendula” is uncommon English (frequency #93,512 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,512
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any plant of the genus Calendula, with yellow or orange flowers, often called marigolds.
Corpus desk
Index EN-calendula · calendula · English
calendula · rank #93,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,512
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH burgle
Nearest frequency peer: burgle (-4 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 “calendula”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Brookland
Brookland
6,499 corpus weight
- burgle
burgle
6,493 corpus weight
- calendula
calendula
6,489 corpus weight
- cannabidiol
cannabidiol
6,483 corpus weight
- Canyonlands
Canyonlands
6,482 corpus weight
- carbamazepi…
carbamazepine
6,481 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “calendula” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calendula |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “calendula” in English
Rare enough to double-check
calendula is uncommon English at frequency #93,512 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any plant of the genus Calendula, with yellow or orange flowers, often called marigolds.".
calendula has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From translingual Calendula, New Latin calendula, diminutive of kalendae. See calends. The correct English form is calendula, spelled C-A-L-E-N-D-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Any plant of the genus Calendula, with yellow or orange flowers, often called marigolds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calendula appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Their dressing room could barely contain all the bouquets they received. Nina gave the largest and brightest, full of zinnias and calendula, to Mother when she came backstage afterward—looking, in her maternal way, even more proud than usual, not just of Nina but of Vera, too.
Etymology
From translingual Calendula, New Latin calendula, diminutive of kalendae. See calends.
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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