stamen
/ˈsteɪ.mən/
"stamen" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stamen” is uncommon English (frequency #95,446 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,446
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
| 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) |
Where “stamen” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
stamen is uncommon English at frequency #95,446 among 54,294 “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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Using “stamen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-A-M-E-N - 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.