Cox's Orange Pippin
"cox-s-orange-pippin" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cox's Orange Pippin” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An English cultivar of eating apple
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cox's Orange Pippin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cox's Orange Pippin” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Cox's Orange Pippin is 19 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An English cultivar of eating apple".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cox's Orange Pippin, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: First grown in 1830 by English horticulturist Richard Cox. The correct English form is Cox's Orange Pippin, spelled C-O-X-'-S- -O-R-A-N-G-E- -P-I-P-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1An English cultivar of eating apple
Etymology
First grown in 1830 by English horticulturist Richard Cox.
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.
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Using “Cox's Orange Pippin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-X-'-S- -O-R-A-N-G-E- -P-I-P-P-I-N - 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.