rapeseed
"rapeseed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rapeseed” is uncommon English (frequency #55,677 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,677
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The seed of the rape plant (Brassica napus), used widely for animal feed and vegetable oil.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rapeseed · rapeseed · English
rapeseed · rank #55,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,677
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rarefied
Nearest frequency peer: rarefied (+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 “rapeseed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- querying
querying
44,329 corpus weight
- Raghu
Raghu
44,327 corpus weight
- rapeseed
rapeseed
44,324 corpus weight
- rarefied
rarefied
44,323 corpus weight
- RCP
RCP
44,321 corpus weight
- reclassific…
reclassification
44,319 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rapeseed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapeseed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rapeseed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rapeseed is uncommon English at frequency #55,677 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rapeseed doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English rape sede, rape seed, equivalent to rape (“rapeseed plant(s)”) + seed. As a meronym for the entire plant, from the need to distinguish the plant from the etymologically unrelated verb and act rape. In this context, rape is from Latin rāp… The correct English form is rapeseed, spelled R-A-P-E-S-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1The seed of the rape plant (Brassica napus), used widely for animal feed and vegetable oil.
- 2The rape plant itself.
Etymology
From Middle English rape sede, rape seed, equivalent to rape (“rapeseed plant(s)”) + seed. As a meronym for the entire plant, from the need to distinguish the plant from the etymologically unrelated verb and act rape. In this context, rape is from Latin rāpa, from rāpum (“turnip”).
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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