scallion
[ˈskæ.lɪ.ən]
"scallion" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scallion” is uncommon English (frequency #89,867 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,867
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A spring onion, Allium fistulosum.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scallion · scallion · English
scallion · rank #89,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,867
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Saturnalia
Nearest frequency peer: Saturnalia (-1 rank slots)
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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 “scallion”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sather
Sather
10,136 corpus weight
- Saturnalia
Saturnalia
10,135 corpus weight
- scallion
scallion
10,134 corpus weight
- Schiano
Schiano
10,131 corpus weight
- Schild
Schild
10,130 corpus weight
- Schlitz
Schlitz
10,129 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “scallion” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scallion |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈskæ.lɪ.ən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scallion” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scallion is uncommon English at frequency #89,867 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈskæ.lɪ.ən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for scallion, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English scaloun (“shallot”), from Anglo-Norman scalun (variant of Old French eschaloigne), from a Proto-Romance derivation of Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin Ascalonius (in caepa (“onion”) Ascalonius, "shallot"), from Ascalo (“Ascalon”), fro… The correct English form is scallion, spelled S-C-A-L-L-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A spring onion, Allium fistulosum.
- 2Any of various similar members of the genus Allium.
- 3Any onion that lacks a fully developed bulb.
- 4A leek.
Etymology
From Middle English scaloun (“shallot”), from Anglo-Norman scalun (variant of Old French eschaloigne), from a Proto-Romance derivation of Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin Ascalonius (in caepa (“onion”) Ascalonius, "shallot"), from Ascalo (“Ascalon”), from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάλων (Askálōn, “Ascalon, an ancient port city in the Levant”), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן (ʾašqəlôn).
Synonyms
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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