pomegranate
/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/
"pomegranate" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pomegranate” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,710. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,710
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pomegranate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #31,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pomegranate” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around pomegranate (IPA /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,710 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for pomegranate, with forms such as "opmegranate", "pmoegranate", and "poemgranate". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme … The correct English form is pomegranate, spelled P-O-M-E-G-R-A-N-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
- 2The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
- 3A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
- 4A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme granade, pomme granate, pomme grenade, and Old French pome grenade, pome grenate, pomme grenate [and other forms] (modern French grenade), probably from Italian pomogranato, pomo granato (though apparently first attested later), and then either: * from Italian pomo (“fruit, pome; apple”) + Latin (mālum) grānātum, (mālo)grānātum (“pomegranate”); or * directly from Medieval Latin pōmum garnātum, pōmum grānātum (“pomegranate”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) + grānātum (“pomegranate”). Pōmum is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”) (in the sense of being picked off a plant), from *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”); while grānātum is derived from grānātus (“having many grains or seeds”), from grānum (“grain, seed, small kernel”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (“to mature, grow old”) + *-nós (suffix forming verbal adjectives)) + -ātus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the possession of a quality or thing from nouns). The adjective is derived from the noun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opmegranate
- pmoegranate
- poemgranate
- pomegarnate
- pomeggranate
- pomegraante
- pomegranaet
- pomegranatte
- pomegrannate
- pomegrantae
- pomegrnaate
- pomegrranate
- pomerganate
- pomgeranate
- pommegranate
- ppomegranate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pomegranate - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “pomegranate”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-O-M-E-G-R-A-N-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.