lemon juice

noun

"lemon-juice" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“lemon juice” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The liquid extract of lemon fruit, notably sour and often condensed, as used especially in food preparation.

Corpus desk

Index EN-lemon-juice · lemon juice · English

lemon juice · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "L" 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.

Key facts for lemon juice
PropertyValue
Headwordlemon juice
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “lemon juice” in English

lemon juiceranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

lemon juice is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

lemon juice has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is lemon juice, spelled L-E-M-O-N- -J-U-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The liquid extract of lemon fruit, notably sour and often condensed, as used especially in food preparation.
  2. 2
    The juice of a sweet lemon or sweet lime.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how lemon juice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. “Come and eat,” said my father. Everyone else had already eaten lunch, so my mother waited on me. First she gave me a tall glass of lemon juice, followed by white noodles, egg rolls, cucumber salad, fish sauce, and meat rolled in rice bread.
  2. They wiped his face with a hot towel, gave him a tall glass of very refreshing lemon juice, and took his temperature, after making him comfortable on a nice clean soft bed inside the ambulance, which sped along its siren wailing.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lemon juice"?
"lemon juice" is spelled L-E-M-O-N- -J-U-I-C-E.
What does "lemon juice" mean?
As a noun, "lemon juice" means: The liquid extract of lemon fruit, notably sour and often condensed, as used especially in food preparation.
What language does "lemon juice" come from?
"lemon juice" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list