oleander
/ˌəʊliˈændə(ɹ)/
"oleander" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oleander” is uncommon English (frequency #77,047 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,047
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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 ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-oleander · oleander · English
oleander · rank #77,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,047
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH oligarchic
Nearest frequency peer: oligarchic (+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 “oleander”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- oho
oho
22,957 corpus weight
- oilman
oilman
22,956 corpus weight
- oleander
oleander
22,954 corpus weight
- oligarchic
oligarchic
22,953 corpus weight
- oncogenic
oncogenic
22,951 corpus weight
- operant
operant
22,950 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “oleander” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “oleander” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oleander is uncommon English at frequency #77,047 among 1,431 “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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