jewelweed
"jewelweed" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jewelweed” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impatiens, especially Impatiens capensis and Impatiens pallida.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jewelweed · jewelweed · English
jewelweed · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" 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 | jewelweed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jewelweed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jewelweed is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Impatiens, especially Impatiens capensis and Impatiens pallida.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jewelweed in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From jewel + weed. The correct English form is jewelweed, spelled J-E-W-E-L-W-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1Impatiens, especially Impatiens capensis and Impatiens pallida.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jewelweed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
he could still see a flower here and there smile up at him – the tawny red of the jewel-weed, and the close-tufted ball of the ‘mountain snow.’
Etymology
From jewel + weed.
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.