persimmon
/pɜːˈsɪmən/
"persimmon" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“persimmon” is an uncommon English word, ranked #50,716 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,716
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which i...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persimmon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɜːˈsɪmən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “persimmon” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for persimmon is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɜːˈsɪmən/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,716 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for persimmon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin. The correct English form is persimmon, spelled P-E-R-S-I-M-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.
- 2The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).
Etymology
From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin.
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 “persimmon”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-E-R-S-I-M-M-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.