firstfruit
"firstfruit" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“firstfruit” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An offering of the first of the harvest; firstfruits.
Corpus desk
Index EN-firstfruit · firstfruit · English
firstfruit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | firstfruit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “firstfruit” in English
Rare enough to double-check
firstfruit is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
firstfruit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English firste fruyt, equivalent to first + fruit. The correct English form is firstfruit, spelled F-I-R-S-T-F-R-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1An offering of the first of the harvest; firstfruits.
- 2The first growth, allegory for the first people to receive the message.
- 3Ceremony in Southern Africa, notably among the Zulu and Swazi peoples, in which the paramount chief is the first to eat from the new harvest.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how firstfruit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Etymology
From Middle English firste fruyt, equivalent to first + fruit.
This word in other languages
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.