freestone
/ˈfɹiːstəʊn/
"freestone" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“freestone” is uncommon English (frequency #74,106 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,106
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-freestone · freestone · English
freestone · rank #74,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,106
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Frenchy
Nearest frequency peer: Frenchy (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “freestone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- focusses
focusses
25,901 corpus weight
- footlocker
footlocker
25,899 corpus weight
- foots
foots
25,898 corpus weight
- fortuitously
fortuitously
25,897 corpus weight
- freestone
freestone
25,895 corpus weight
- Frenchy
Frenchy
25,894 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “freestone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | freestone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɹiːstəʊn/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “freestone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
freestone is uncommon English at frequency #74,106 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɹiːstəʊn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
freestone doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From free + stone. The correct English form is freestone, spelled F-R-E-E-S-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
- 2A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how freestone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.
It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.
Etymology
From free + stone.
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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