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nepeta

noun

nepeta is a noun meaning “Any plant of the genus Nepeta of flowering plants, including catnip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-P-E-T-A, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nepeta is nepetas.

What does nepeta mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any plant of the genus Nepeta of flowering plants, including catnip.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of nepeta

  • nepetas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is nepeta?

Nepeta appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does nepeta come from?

From Nepeta (“nepeta”). Doublet of nep.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).