echinacea
/ˌɛkɪˈneɪʃə/
"echinacea" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“echinacea” is uncommon English (frequency #80,411 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,411
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several plants, of genus Echinacea, having pinkish-purple flowers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-echinacea · echinacea · English
echinacea · rank #80,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,411
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH earache
Nearest frequency peer: earache (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Long-tail ranks near “echinacea”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- duodenal
duodenal
19,597 corpus weight
- Dupuy
Dupuy
19,595 corpus weight
- dural
dural
19,594 corpus weight
- earache
earache
19,591 corpus weight
- echinacea
echinacea
19,590 corpus weight
- egyptology
egyptology
19,584 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “echinacea” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | echinacea |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɛkɪˈneɪʃə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “echinacea” in English
Rare enough to double-check
echinacea is uncommon English at frequency #80,411 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɛkɪˈneɪʃə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for echinacea, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From scientific Latin Echinacea, from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”, because of the soft "spines" in the centre of the flower) + translingual -acea. The correct English form is echinacea, spelled E-C-H-I-N-A-C-E-A.
Definition
- 1Any of several plants, of genus Echinacea, having pinkish-purple flowers.
- 2A herbal medicine extracted from the roots and seeds of such plants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how echinacea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
Etymology
From scientific Latin Echinacea, from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”, because of the soft "spines" in the centre of the flower) + translingual -acea.
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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