green lacewing
"green-lacewing" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“green lacewing” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any insect of the family Chrysopidae, a chrysopid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-green-lacewing · green lacewing · English
green lacewing · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | green lacewing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “green lacewing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
green lacewing is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any insect of the family Chrysopidae, a chrysopid.".
No misspelling variants are generated for green lacewing in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is green lacewing, spelled G-R-E-E-N- -L-A-C-E-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Any insect of the family Chrysopidae, a chrysopid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how green lacewing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Green lacewings eat red spiders, aphids, mealy bugs, thrips, scale, and more.
Several species of green lacewings are native to this region, all general predators that feed on a wide variety of insect pests.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.