peyote
/peɪˈjoʊti/
"peyote" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peyote” is uncommon English (frequency #50,149 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,149
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for their psychedelic effect, primarily ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-peyote · peyote · English
peyote · rank #50,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,149
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pettiness
Nearest frequency peer: pettiness (-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 “peyote”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- peds
peds
49,855 corpus weight
- pertussis
pertussis
49,854 corpus weight
- pettiness
pettiness
49,853 corpus weight
- peyote
peyote
49,852 corpus weight
- pff
pff
49,851 corpus weight
- PGP
PGP
49,850 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “peyote” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peyote |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /peɪˈjoʊti/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “peyote” in English
Rare enough to double-check
peyote is uncommon English at frequency #50,149 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /peɪˈjoʊti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for peyote in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish peyote, from Classical Nahuatl peyotl. The correct English form is peyote, spelled P-E-Y-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for their psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline.
- 2A mescal button produced by the plant.
Etymology
From Spanish peyote, from Classical Nahuatl peyotl.
Synonyms
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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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