panicle
noun
panicle is spelled P-A-N-I-C-L-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, panicle means “A compound raceme” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of panicle is panicles.
How many letters and syllables are in panicle?
| Letters | 7: P-A-N-I-C-L-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 109,062nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is panicle?
Panicle appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).
What rhymes with panicle?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as panicle.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: pelican, capelin.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of panicle
- panicles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does panicle mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A compound raceme.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Panicle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a compound raceme:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does panicle come from?
Borrowed from Latin pānicula, diminutive of pānus (“ear of millet, literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'”), from Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”), πηνίον (pēníon, “bobbin”). Doublet of panocha.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).