solanum
"solanum" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“solanum” is uncommon English (frequency #75,429 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,429
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any plant in the genus Solanum.
Corpus desk
Index EN-solanum · solanum · English
solanum · rank #75,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,429
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Solway
Nearest frequency peer: Solway (+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 “solanum”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- smokestack
smokestack
24,575 corpus weight
- snubbing
snubbing
24,574 corpus weight
- solanum
solanum
24,572 corpus weight
- Solway
Solway
24,571 corpus weight
- Somoza
Somoza
24,570 corpus weight
- soothsayer
soothsayer
24,569 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “solanum” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solanum |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “solanum” in English
Rare enough to double-check
solanum is uncommon English at frequency #75,429 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for solanum in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from translingual Solanum. The correct English form is solanum, spelled S-O-L-A-N-U-M.
Definition
- 1Any plant in the genus Solanum.
- 2A traditional green vegetable in the genus Solanum, specifically Solanum nigrum, and sometimes Solanum macrocarpon, Solanum scabrum, and Solanum villosum.
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Solanum.
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).