foxglove
"foxglove" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foxglove” is an uncommon English word, ranked #83,257 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,257
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of genus Digitalis of about 20 species of herbaceous biennials native to the Old World, certain of which are prized for their showy flowers. The drug digitalis or digoxin was first isolated fro...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foxglove |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “foxglove” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for foxglove is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #83,257 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Any of genus Digitalis of about 20 species of herbaceous biennials native to the Old World, certain of which are prized for their showy flowers. The drug digitalis or digoxin was first isolated fro...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for foxglove in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English fox-glove, foxes glove, from Old English foxes glōfa (“foxglove”). By surface analysis, fox + glove. The correct English form is foxglove, spelled F-O-X-G-L-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1Any of genus Digitalis of about 20 species of herbaceous biennials native to the Old World, certain of which are prized for their showy flowers. The drug digitalis or digoxin was first isolated from the plant.
Etymology
From Middle English fox-glove, foxes glove, from Old English foxes glōfa (“foxglove”). By surface analysis, fox + glove.
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); 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 “foxglove”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-O-X-G-L-O-V-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.