spearmint
/ˈspɪəˌmɪnt/
"spearmint" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spearmint” is uncommon English (frequency #65,524 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,524
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A herb of the mint family (Mentha spicata), commonly used in herb tea, candy and to treat mild stomach ache.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spearmint · spearmint · English
spearmint · rank #65,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,524
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Spengler
Nearest frequency peer: Spengler (+2 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 “spearmint”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sonne
sonne
34,485 corpus weight
- spearmint
spearmint
34,477 corpus weight
- Spengler
Spengler
34,475 corpus weight
- spica
spica
34,474 corpus weight
- squawking
squawking
34,471 corpus weight
- stackable
stackable
34,469 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spearmint” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spearmint |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈspɪəˌmɪnt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spearmint” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spearmint is uncommon English at frequency #65,524 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈspɪəˌmɪnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A herb of the mint family (Mentha spicata), commonly used in herb tea, candy and to treat mild stomach ache.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for spearmint, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From spear (“sprout of a plant, spire”) + mint, so named due to its spiry blooms. The correct English form is spearmint, spelled S-P-E-A-R-M-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1A herb of the mint family (Mentha spicata), commonly used in herb tea, candy and to treat mild stomach ache.
Etymology
From spear (“sprout of a plant, spire”) + mint, so named due to its spiry blooms.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).