lemony
"lemony" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lemony” is uncommon English (frequency #54,901 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,901
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resembling or characteristic of lemons, especially in terms of aroma, taste or colour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lemony · lemony · English
lemony · rank #54,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,901
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Letty
Nearest frequency peer: Letty (+2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “lemony”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lawman
lawman
45,104 corpus weight
- LCA
LCA
45,103 corpus weight
- lemony
lemony
45,100 corpus weight
- Letty
Letty
45,098 corpus weight
- Lewy
Lewy
45,097 corpus weight
- Lindberg
Lindberg
45,095 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lemony” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lemony |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lemony” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lemony is uncommon English at frequency #54,901 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lemony in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From lemon + -y. The correct English form is lemony, spelled L-E-M-O-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Resembling or characteristic of lemons, especially in terms of aroma, taste or colour.
- 2Of or pertaining to lemons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lemony appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The walls were painted a lemony yellow colour.
We were served a lemony cheesecake for dessert.
Etymology
From lemon + -y.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).