phlox
/flɒks/
"phlox" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“phlox” is uncommon English (frequency #63,138 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,138
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phlox |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /flɒks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “phlox” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
phlox is uncommon English at frequency #63,138 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /flɒks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for phlox in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From New Latin Phlox, from Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”). The correct English form is phlox, spelled P-H-L-O-X.
Definition
- 1Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.
Etymology
From New Latin Phlox, from Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”).
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 “phlox”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-H-L-O-X - 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.