sawgrass
"sawgrass" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sawgrass” is uncommon English (frequency #80,849 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,849
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several Cladium species, long sedges with saw-like sharp, serrated edges, such as Cladium californicum, Cladium jamaicense, and Cladium mariscoides
Corpus desk
Index EN-sawgrass · sawgrass · English
sawgrass · rank #80,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,849
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH satisfyingly
Nearest frequency peer: satisfyingly (-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 “sawgrass”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sansom
Sansom
19,157 corpus weight
- Saoirse
Saoirse
19,155 corpus weight
- Sarum
Sarum
19,154 corpus weight
- satisfyingly
satisfyingly
19,153 corpus weight
- sawgrass
sawgrass
19,152 corpus weight
- Saxby
Saxby
19,151 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sawgrass” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sawgrass |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sawgrass” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sawgrass is uncommon English at frequency #80,849 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several Cladium species, long sedges with saw-like sharp, serrated edges, such as Cladium californicum, Cladium jamaicense, and Cladium mariscoides".
sawgrass has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From saw + grass. The correct English form is sawgrass, spelled S-A-W-G-R-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Any of several Cladium species, long sedges with saw-like sharp, serrated edges, such as Cladium californicum, Cladium jamaicense, and Cladium mariscoides
Etymology
From saw + grass.
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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