shallot
/ˈʃælət/
"shallot" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shallot” is uncommon English (frequency #62,505 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,505
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any vegetable of certain species in the onion family.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shallot · shallot · English
shallot · rank #62,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,505
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shagged
Nearest frequency peer: shagged (-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 “shallot”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sess
sess
37,500 corpus weight
- shagged
shagged
37,497 corpus weight
- shallot
shallot
37,496 corpus weight
- shebang
shebang
37,495 corpus weight
- Sherborne
Sherborne
37,494 corpus weight
- sica
sica
37,493 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shallot” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shallot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃælət/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shallot” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shallot is uncommon English at frequency #62,505 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈʃælət/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shallot, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French échalote, from Middle French eschalote, alteration of Old French eschaloigne, from Medieval Latin escalonia, from Latin ascalonia (cēpa) (“onion of Ashkelon”). Doublet of scallion. The correct English form is shallot, spelled S-H-A-L-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Any vegetable of certain species in the onion family.
- 2Any vegetable of certain species in the onion family.
- 3Any small onion.
- 4A scallion.
Etymology
Borrowed from French échalote, from Middle French eschalote, alteration of Old French eschaloigne, from Medieval Latin escalonia, from Latin ascalonia (cēpa) (“onion of Ashkelon”). Doublet of scallion.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).