peppery
/ˈpɛpəɹi/
"peppery" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peppery” is uncommon English (frequency #62,403 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,403
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.
Corpus desk
Index EN-peppery · peppery · English
peppery · rank #62,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,403
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pella
Nearest frequency peer: Pella (-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 “peppery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- patronised
patronised
37,601 corpus weight
- Pella
Pella
37,599 corpus weight
- peppery
peppery
37,598 corpus weight
- Perelman
Perelman
37,597 corpus weight
- personages
personages
37,595 corpus weight
- persuasively
persuasively
37,594 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “peppery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peppery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpɛpəɹi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “peppery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
peppery is uncommon English at frequency #62,403 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈpɛpəɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for peppery, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pepper + -y. The correct English form is peppery, spelled P-E-P-P-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.
- 2Having a fiery temperament.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peppery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a peppery old Army major
At the Stag and Antlers old Mrs. Crocket, than whom no old woman in the public line was ever more generous, more peppery, or more kind, kept two clean bedrooms, and could cook a leg of Dartmoor mutton and make an apple pie against any woman in Devonshire.
Etymology
From pepper + -y.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).