snapdragon
/ˈsnæpdɹæɡən/
"snapdragon" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“snapdragon” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,889
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-snapdragon · snapdragon · English
snapdragon · rank #41,889 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,889
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slouch
Nearest frequency peer: slouch (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “snapdragon”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- skeet
skeet
58,115 corpus weight
- slouch
slouch
58,113 corpus weight
- snapdragon
snapdragon
58,112 corpus weight
- sneer
sneer
58,111 corpus weight
- sola
sola
58,110 corpus weight
- Somaliland
Somaliland
58,109 corpus weight
What this shows “snapdragon” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snapdragon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsnæpdɹæɡən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “snapdragon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around snapdragon (IPA /ˈsnæpdɹæɡən/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,889 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for snapdragon, with forms such as "nsapdragon", "sanpdragon", and "snadpragon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: (1570s) From snap + dragon, from a fancied resemblance, especially by playing children that the flower is a dragon that opens its "mouth" when squeezed on the sides. Compare for this sense the etymology of Dutch leeuwenbek (“snapdragon”, literally “lion's m… The correct English form is snapdragon, spelled S-N-A-P-D-R-A-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
- 2A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; the substance snatched and eaten during the playing of the game; the vessel used for the game.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how snapdragon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snap-dragon beset by bees;
Snapdragon leaves are asymmetrical with respect to dorsal-ventral surfaces (Fig. 6.6A).
Etymology
(1570s) From snap + dragon, from a fancied resemblance, especially by playing children that the flower is a dragon that opens its "mouth" when squeezed on the sides. Compare for this sense the etymology of Dutch leeuwenbek (“snapdragon”, literally “lion's mouth”) and German Löwenmaul. An ancient name was Old English hundeshéafod (literally “dog's head”). For the parlour game sense, the 1704 Swift quotation is apparently the earliest appearance in print. Other animal-based names for the flower are common; compare Greek σκυλάκι (skyláki, literally “puppy”) and Finnish leijonankita (literally “lion's mouth”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nsapdragon
- sanpdragon
- snadpragon
- snapdargon
- snapddragon
- snapdraggon
- snapdragno
- snapdragonn
- snapdraogn
- snapdrgaon
- snapdrragon
- snappdragon
- snaprdagon
- snnapdragon
- snpadragon
- ssnapdragon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of snapdragon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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