prunus
"prunus" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prunus” is uncommon English (frequency #66,960 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,960
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
Corpus desk
Index EN-prunus · prunus · English
prunus · rank #66,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,960
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH prow
Nearest frequency peer: prow (-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 “prunus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- proffer
proffer
33,047 corpus weight
- prospective…
prospectively
33,045 corpus weight
- provolone
provolone
33,043 corpus weight
- prow
prow
33,042 corpus weight
- prunus
prunus
33,041 corpus weight
- père
père
33,039 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “prunus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prunus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “prunus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
prunus is uncommon English at frequency #66,960 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for prunus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin prūnus. Doublet of prune and plum. The correct English form is prunus, spelled P-R-U-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prunus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] a caption by two 1740s Meissen plates ($27,500 for the pair) notes that they belonged to Saxon royals and have a pattern often mislabeled as a crouching lion but “in reality a tiger prowling amongst prunus.”
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prūnus. Doublet of prune and plum.
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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