colewort
"colewort" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“colewort” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.
Corpus desk
Index EN-colewort · colewort · English
colewort · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colewort |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “colewort” in English
Rare enough to double-check
colewort is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for colewort, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English coolwort, coulwort, cole-wort, caule worte, equivalent to cole + wort. The correct English form is colewort, spelled C-O-L-E-W-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colewort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline , Cold lettuce , and refreshing rosmarine
[W]e may observe that water will more readily wet some woods then others; and that water, let fall upon a Feather, the whiter side of a Colwort, and some other leaves, or upon almost any dusty, unctuous, or resinous superficies, will not at all adhere to them, but easily tumble off from them, like a solid Bowl […].
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English coolwort, coulwort, cole-wort, caule worte, equivalent to cole + wort.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.