stellate
/ˈstɛl.eɪt/
"stellate" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stellate” is uncommon English (frequency #86,796 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,796
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stellate · stellate · English
stellate · rank #86,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,796
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stell
Nearest frequency peer: stell (-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 “stellate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stater
stater
13,209 corpus weight
- Staub
Staub
13,208 corpus weight
- stell
stell
13,206 corpus weight
- stellate
stellate
13,205 corpus weight
- Stempel
Stempel
13,204 corpus weight
- stomper
stomper
13,202 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stellate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stellate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈstɛl.eɪt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stellate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stellate is uncommon English at frequency #86,796 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈstɛl.eɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center.".
stellate doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin stēllātus (“starry”), from stēlla (“star”) + -ātus (“-ate”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to stell(a) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The correct English form is stellate, spelled S-T-E-L-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stellate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
stellate cells
stellate flowers
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stēllātus (“starry”), from stēlla (“star”) + -ātus (“-ate”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to stell(a) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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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