spinach
/ˈspɪnɪt͡ʃ/noun
spinach is spelled S-P-I-N-A-C-H: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spinach means “A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spinach is spinaches.
How many letters and syllables are in spinach?
| Letters | 7: S-P-I-N-A-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is spinach?
Spinach appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce spinach?
- US /ˈspɪnɪt͡ʃ/
- US /ˈspɪnɪd͡ʒ/
Spinach has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-spinach.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of spinach
- spinaches plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spinach mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
- 2
Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleracea is or resemble it in some way.
- 3
slangThick rough.
That shot left me in the spinach!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Spinach in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does spinach come from?
From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Classical Persian اسپناخ (ispanāx, ispināx).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).