gleba
"gleba" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gleba” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gleba · gleba · English
gleba · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gleba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gleba” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gleba is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gleba, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin glēba (“lump, mass”). Doublet of glebe. The correct English form is gleba, spelled G-L-E-B-A.
Definition
- 1The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin glēba (“lump, mass”). Doublet of glebe.
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.