tomato purée

noun

"tomato-puree" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“tomato purée” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A concentrated sauce (sold in tins or tubes) made from mashed tomatoes.

Corpus desk

Index EN-tomato-puree · tomato purée · English

tomato purée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "T" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for tomato purée
PropertyValue
Headwordtomato purée
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “tomato purée” in English

tomato puréefalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tomato purée is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A concentrated sauce (sold in tins or tubes) made from mashed tomatoes.".

Zero misspellings are on record for tomato purée in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is tomato purée, spelled T-O-M-A-T-O- -P-U-R-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A concentrated sauce (sold in tins or tubes) made from mashed tomatoes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tomato purée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Normally I just put tomato purée on my pizza, but today I made my own tomato sauce. It was delicious.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tomato purée"?
"tomato purée" is spelled T-O-M-A-T-O- -P-U-R-É-E.
What does "tomato purée" mean?
As a noun, "tomato purée" means: A concentrated sauce (sold in tins or tubes) made from mashed tomatoes.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list