citrine
/ˈsɪtɹin/
"citrine" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“citrine” is uncommon English (frequency #64,992 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,992
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
Corpus desk
Index EN-citrine · citrine · English
citrine · rank #64,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,992
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cisneros
Nearest frequency peer: Cisneros (-1 rank slots)
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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 “citrine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cingulate
cingulate
35,013 corpus weight
- Cisneros
Cisneros
35,010 corpus weight
- citrine
citrine
35,009 corpus weight
- clamshell
clamshell
35,008 corpus weight
- clod
clod
35,007 corpus weight
- Clowney
Clowney
35,006 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “citrine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citrine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɪtɹin/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “citrine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
citrine is uncommon English at frequency #64,992 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɪtɹin/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
citrine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus. The correct English form is citrine, spelled C-I-T-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
- 2A brownish-yellow quartz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how citrine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.
[…] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]
Etymology
From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.
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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