flower child
"flower-child" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flower child” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A hippie involved with the flower power movement.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flower child |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flower child” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for flower child is 12 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: "A hippie involved with the flower power movement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for flower child in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is flower child, spelled F-L-O-W-E-R- -C-H-I-L-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A hippie involved with the flower power movement.
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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PlainSpell, “flower child, English word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/en/word/flower-child
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Using “flower child”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-L-O-W-E-R- -C-H-I-L-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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