camellia
/kəˈmiːli.ə/
"camellia" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“camellia” is uncommon English (frequency #51,593 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,593
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any plant of the genus Camellia, shrubs and small trees native to Asia; Camellia japonica is the most popular as a garden plant; Camellia sinensis is the tea plant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camellia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈmiːli.ə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “camellia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
camellia is uncommon English at frequency #51,593 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəˈmiːli.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any plant of the genus Camellia, shrubs and small trees native to Asia; Camellia japonica is the most popular as a garden plant; Camellia sinensis is the tea plant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for camellia in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from translingual Camellia, named after Moravian botanist Joseph Kamel (‘Camellus’) (1661–1706). The Czech surname Kamel is a variant of Kamil. The correct English form is camellia, spelled C-A-M-E-L-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Any plant of the genus Camellia, shrubs and small trees native to Asia; Camellia japonica is the most popular as a garden plant; Camellia sinensis is the tea plant.
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Camellia, named after Moravian botanist Joseph Kamel (‘Camellus’) (1661–1706). The Czech surname Kamel is a variant of Kamil.
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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- The one correct English spelling is C-A-M-E-L-L-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.