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chelone

noun

chelone is spelled C-H-E-L-O-N-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chelone means “Any member of the genus Chelone of four species of perennial herbaceous plants that are native to eastern North America” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chelone is chelones.

How many letters and syllables are in chelone?

Letters7: C-H-E-L-O-N-E
In writingabout once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is chelone?

Chelone appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with chelone?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as chelone.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: echelon.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of chelone

  • chelones plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does chelone mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any member of the genus Chelone of four species of perennial herbaceous plants that are native to eastern North America.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Chelone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense genus of four species of plants:

LanguageWords
Frenchchélone

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does chelone come from?

From the genus name.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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