spearmint
/ˈspɪəˌmɪnt/
"spearmint" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spearmint” is an uncommon English word, ranked #65,524 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,524
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A herb of the mint family (Mentha spicata), commonly used in herb tea, candy and to treat mild stomach ache.
| 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) |
Where “spearmint” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for spearmint is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈspɪəˌmɪnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #65,524 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “spearmint”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-P-E-A-R-M-I-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.