garlick
"garlick" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“garlick” is uncommon English (frequency #82,325 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,325
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic spelling of garlic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-garlick · garlick · English
garlick · rank #82,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,325
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gastonia
Nearest frequency peer: Gastonia (+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 “garlick”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Galan
Galan
17,680 corpus weight
- garba
garba
17,678 corpus weight
- garlick
garlick
17,676 corpus weight
- Gastonia
Gastonia
17,675 corpus weight
- Gath
Gath
17,674 corpus weight
- Gaudreau
Gaudreau
17,673 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “garlick” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garlick |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “garlick” in English
Rare enough to double-check
garlick is uncommon English at frequency #82,325 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archaic spelling of garlic.".
garlick doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is garlick, spelled G-A-R-L-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Archaic spelling of garlic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how garlick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He may make a shift to sow lettuce, raise melons, and water a garden-plat; but otherwise, a very filthy fellow: how odiously he smells of his country garlick!
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).