date palm
"date-palm" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“date palm” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | date palm |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “date palm” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
date palm is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for date palm in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is date palm, spelled D-A-T-E- -P-A-L-M.
Definition
- 1A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.
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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.
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Using “date palm”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-A-T-E- -P-A-L-M - 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.