rosella
/ɹə(ʊ)ˈzɛlə/
"rosella" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rosella” is uncommon English (frequency #84,698 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,698
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rosella · rosella · English
rosella · rank #84,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,698
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Roquefort
Nearest frequency peer: Roquefort (-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 “rosella”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- roguelike
roguelike
15,307 corpus weight
- Roquefort
Roquefort
15,304 corpus weight
- rosella
rosella
15,303 corpus weight
- rotorcraft
rotorcraft
15,302 corpus weight
- ruffed
ruffed
15,298 corpus weight
- RWA
RWA
15,295 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rosella” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rosella |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹə(ʊ)ˈzɛlə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rosella” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rosella is uncommon English at frequency #84,698 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹə(ʊ)ˈzɛlə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rosella, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain; perhaps a variant of Rosehill. The correct English form is rosella, spelled R-O-S-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rosella appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Molly […] had glimpsed a future, like a rosella, hardly seen, swooping through the high umbrellas of the bush.
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps a variant of Rosehill.
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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