perianth
"perianth" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“perianth” is uncommon English (frequency #85,639 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,639
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
Corpus desk
Index EN-perianth · perianth · English
perianth · rank #85,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,639
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH perfidious
Nearest frequency peer: perfidious (-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 “perianth”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- penton
penton
14,366 corpus weight
- penury
penury
14,365 corpus weight
- perdita
perdita
14,364 corpus weight
- perfidious
perfidious
14,363 corpus weight
- perianth
perianth
14,362 corpus weight
- pern
pern
14,360 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “perianth” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perianth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “perianth” in English
Rare enough to double-check
perianth is uncommon English at frequency #85,639 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for perianth in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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 périanthe, from New Latin perianthium. The correct English form is perianth, spelled P-E-R-I-A-N-T-H.
Definition
- 1The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
- 2The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perianth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.
Etymology
From French périanthe, from New Latin perianthium.
Synonyms
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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