logwood
"logwood" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“logwood” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tree of species Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.
Corpus desk
Index EN-logwood · logwood · English
logwood · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | logwood |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “logwood” in English
Rare enough to double-check
logwood is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
logwood doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From log + wood. The correct English form is logwood, spelled L-O-G-W-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1A tree of species Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.
- 2Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.
- 3Wood of any of these trees.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how logwood appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the latter part of the eighteenth century in Maryland, [Easter] eggs were boiled in logwood which dyed the shells crimson, and the patterns would be scratched away with a pin.
Etymology
From log + wood.
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.