pollinate
/ˈpɒlɪneɪt/
"pollinate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pollinate” is uncommon English (frequency #57,642 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,642
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To apply pollen to (a stigma).
Corpus desk
Index EN-pollinate · pollinate · English
pollinate · rank #57,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,642
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH politique
Nearest frequency peer: politique (-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 “pollinate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- poetically
poetically
42,362 corpus weight
- politique
politique
42,360 corpus weight
- pollinate
pollinate
42,359 corpus weight
- polymorphic
polymorphic
42,358 corpus weight
- professorial
professorial
42,355 corpus weight
- propofol
propofol
42,354 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pollinate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pollinate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈpɒlɪneɪt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pollinate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pollinate is uncommon English at frequency #57,642 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈpɒlɪneɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To apply pollen to (a stigma).".
No misspelling variants are generated for pollinate in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") + -ate (verb-forming suffix). The correct English form is pollinate, spelled P-O-L-L-I-N-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To apply pollen to (a stigma).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pollinate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
pollinate plants
pollinate flowers
Etymology
From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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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