foodborne
"foodborne" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foodborne” is uncommon English (frequency #62,905 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,905
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Transmitted through food.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foodborne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “foodborne” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
foodborne is uncommon English at frequency #62,905 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Transmitted through food.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for foodborne, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From food + borne. The correct English form is foodborne, spelled F-O-O-D-B-O-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Transmitted through food.
Etymology
From food + borne.
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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Using “foodborne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-O-O-D-B-O-R-N-E - 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.