nyssa
"nyssa" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nyssa” is uncommon English (frequency #54,362 among 24,391 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,362
- frequency rank, English
- 24,391
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A tree of the genus Nyssa.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nyssa · nyssa · English
nyssa · rank #54,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,362
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 24,391
- PHOTO-FINISH NSE
Nearest frequency peer: NSE (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “nyssa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- noninvasive
noninvasive
45,642 corpus weight
- nonprolifer…
nonproliferation
45,641 corpus weight
- NSE
NSE
45,640 corpus weight
- nyssa
nyssa
45,639 corpus weight
- odorless
odorless
45,637 corpus weight
- oppositional
oppositional
45,636 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “nyssa” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nyssa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nyssa” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
nyssa is uncommon English at frequency #54,362 among 24,391 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A tree of the genus Nyssa.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nyssa, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is nyssa, spelled N-Y-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1A tree of the genus Nyssa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nyssa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.