stroma
/ˈstɹəʊ̯.mə/
"stroma" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stroma” is uncommon English (frequency #70,300 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,300
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stroma · stroma · English
stroma · rank #70,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,300
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subsiding
Nearest frequency peer: subsiding (+2 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 “stroma”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stepwise
stepwise
29,706 corpus weight
- Stonehaven
Stonehaven
29,705 corpus weight
- stroma
stroma
29,701 corpus weight
- subsiding
subsiding
29,699 corpus weight
- substructure
substructure
29,698 corpus weight
- sunning
sunning
29,697 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stroma” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stroma |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈstɹəʊ̯.mə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stroma” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stroma is uncommon English at frequency #70,300 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈstɹəʊ̯.mə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stroma, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin strōma (“mattress, bed covering”), from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, “bed”), from στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “to stretch out”). The correct English form is stroma, spelled S-T-R-O-M-A.
Definition
- 1The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it.
Etymology
From Latin strōma (“mattress, bed covering”), from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, “bed”), from στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “to stretch out”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).