poppy
/ˈpɒpi/
"poppy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“poppy” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,216. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,216
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) wh...
Corpus desk
Index EN-poppy · poppy · English
poppy · rank #13,216 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,216
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH plumbing
Nearest frequency peer: plumbing (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “poppy”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- periodically
periodically
86,789 corpus weight
- piles
piles
86,788 corpus weight
- plumbing
plumbing
86,786 corpus weight
- poppy
poppy
86,785 corpus weight
- PRATT
PRATT
86,784 corpus weight
- precautions
precautions
86,783 corpus weight
What this shows “poppy” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poppy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɒpi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “poppy”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around poppy (IPA /ˈpɒpi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,216 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for poppy, with forms such as "opppy", "poppyy", and "popy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "PPP", "pops", "puppy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *péh₂wr̥ The noun is derived from Late Middle English poppy, Middle English popy, popi, popie (“plant of the genus Papaver; poppy seeds used as a spice”) [and other forms], from Old English popiġ (“poppy”), Early Old English popeġ, popaeġ, popæġ, … The correct English form is poppy, spelled P-O-P-P-Y.
Definition
- 1Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
- 2A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.
- 3A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Day/Remembrance Sunday.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poppy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; […] / If ye break faith with us who die / We shall not sleep, though poppies grow / In Flanders fields.
We cherish, too, the poppy red / That grows on fields where valor led; / It seems to signal to the skies / That blood of heroes never dies, / […] / And now the torch and poppy red / We wear in honor of our dead. / Fear not that ye have died for naught; / We've learned the lesson that ye taught / In Flanders fields.
Etymology
PIE word *péh₂wr̥ The noun is derived from Late Middle English poppy, Middle English popy, popi, popie (“plant of the genus Papaver; poppy seeds used as a spice”) [and other forms], from Old English popiġ (“poppy”), Early Old English popeġ, popaeġ, popæġ, popei [and other forms], perhaps from Late Latin *papavum, popauer, from Latin papāver (“poppy”), which may be from a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“bonfire”). Doublet of papaver. Sense 3 (“artificial poppy flower to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts”) reflects the efforts of American professor and humanitarian Moina Michael (1869–1944) to popularize the wearing of artificial poppies in remembrance of those who fought and died in World War I; she was inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915) by the Canadian poet and soldier John McCrae (1872–1918): see the quotation. The adjective is derived from the noun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opppy
- poppyy
- popy
- popyp
- ppoppy
- ppopy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poppy - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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