oleander
/ˌəʊliˈændə(ɹ)/
"oleander" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oleander” is uncommon English (frequency #77,047 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,047
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nerium oleander, a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental, having leathery lance-shaped leaves and deep rose-colored or white ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oleander |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌəʊliˈændə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oleander” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
oleander is uncommon English at frequency #77,047 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌəʊliˈændə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nerium oleander, a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental, having leathery lance-shaped leaves and deep rose-colored or white ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for oleander in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French oléandre, from Medieval Latin oleandru, from Late Latin lorandrum, perhaps an alteration of rhododendron. The correct English form is oleander, spelled O-L-E-A-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nerium oleander, a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental, having leathery lance-shaped leaves and deep rose-colored or white flowers.
Etymology
From French oléandre, from Medieval Latin oleandru, from Late Latin lorandrum, perhaps an alteration of rhododendron.
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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Using “oleander”
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- The one correct English spelling is O-L-E-A-N-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.