stamen
/ˈsteɪ.mən/
"stamen" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stamen” is uncommon English (frequency #95,446 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,446
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stamen · stamen · English
stamen · rank #95,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,446
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Stallard
Nearest frequency peer: Stallard (-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 “stamen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Spiegelman
Spiegelman
4,561 corpus weight
- Spohr
Spohr
4,560 corpus weight
- Stabenow
Stabenow
4,557 corpus weight
- Stallard
Stallard
4,556 corpus weight
- stamen
stamen
4,555 corpus weight
- stenting
stenting
4,550 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stamen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stamen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsteɪ.mən/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stamen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stamen is uncommon English at frequency #95,446 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsteɪ.mən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stamen, 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From New Latin stāmen, from Ancient Greek στη̃μα (stē̃ma). The correct English form is stamen, spelled S-T-A-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1In flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
Etymology
From New Latin stāmen, from Ancient Greek στη̃μα (stē̃ma).
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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