obovate
"obovate" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“obovate” is uncommon English (frequency #95,206 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,206
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base.
Corpus desk
Index EN-obovate · obovate · English
obovate · rank #95,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,206
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH OAG
Nearest frequency peer: OAG (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “obovate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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numinous
4,801 corpus weight
- nuthatch
nuthatch
4,799 corpus weight
- OAG
OAG
4,796 corpus weight
- obovate
obovate
4,795 corpus weight
- odium
odium
4,793 corpus weight
- Okhotsk
Okhotsk
4,790 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “obovate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obovate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “obovate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
obovate is uncommon English at frequency #95,206 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for obovate, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ob- (“inverse”) + ovate (“egg-shaped”). The correct English form is obovate, spelled O-B-O-V-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base.
Etymology
From ob- (“inverse”) + ovate (“egg-shaped”).
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).