clematis
/ˈklɛmətɪs/
"clematis" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clematis” is uncommon English (frequency #60,713 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,713
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clematis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈklɛmətɪs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clematis” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
clematis is uncommon English at frequency #60,713 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈklɛmətɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.".
clematis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from translingual Clematis, from Latin clēmatis, from Ancient Greek κληματίς (klēmatís), from κλῆμα (klêma, “vine, branch with vines”). The correct English form is clematis, spelled C-L-E-M-A-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Any plant of the genus Clematis, vigorous climbing lianas found throughout the temperate zones.
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Clematis, from Latin clēmatis, from Ancient Greek κληματίς (klēmatís), from κλῆμα (klêma, “vine, branch with vines”).
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 “clematis”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-L-E-M-A-T-I-S - 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.