goat's rue
/ˈɡoʊts ɹuː/
"goat-s-rue" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goat's rue” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Certain herbaceous plants in the family Fabaceae:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goat's rue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡoʊts ɹuː/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “goat's rue” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
goat's rue is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡoʊts ɹuː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
goat's rue has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is goat's rue, spelled G-O-A-T-'-S- -R-U-E.
Definition
- 1Certain herbaceous plants in the family Fabaceae:
- 2Certain herbaceous plants in the family Fabaceae:
- 3Certain herbaceous plants in the family Fabaceae:
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.
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Using “goat's rue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-O-A-T-'-S- -R-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɡoʊts ɹuː/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.