dragon's wort
"dragon-s-wort" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dragon's wort” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A perennial herb, tarragon, Artemisia dracunculus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragon's wort |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dragon's wort” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dragon's wort is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dragon's wort in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: A calque of Arabic طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn, “tarragon”). The correct English form is dragon's wort, spelled D-R-A-G-O-N-'-S- -W-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1A perennial herb, tarragon, Artemisia dracunculus.
- 2Dracunculus vulgaris, dragon arum, a flowering plant in the arum (Araceae) family.
- 3Bistorta officinalis (common bistort, a plant in the knotweed (Polygonaceae) family, once classified as Persicaria bistorta and Polygonum bistorta.
- 4Arisaema dracontium, green dragon, a herbaceous perennial native to North America.
Etymology
A calque of Arabic طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn, “tarragon”).
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 “dragon's wort”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-A-G-O-N-'-S- -W-O-R-T - 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.