wheatgrass
"wheatgrass" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wheatgrass” is uncommon English (frequency #67,168 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,168
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wheatgrass · wheatgrass · English
wheatgrass · rank #67,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,168
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Whalley
Nearest frequency peer: Whalley (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “wheatgrass”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wendi
Wendi
32,836 corpus weight
- Whalley
Whalley
32,834 corpus weight
- wheatgrass
wheatgrass
32,833 corpus weight
- Whitford
Whitford
32,832 corpus weight
- widener
widener
32,831 corpus weight
- Windex
Windex
32,828 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wheatgrass” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wheatgrass |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wheatgrass” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wheatgrass is uncommon English at frequency #67,168 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for wheatgrass, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wheat + grass. The correct English form is wheatgrass, spelled W-H-E-A-T-G-R-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.
- 2A grass of the genus Agropyron, commonly known as crested-wheat grass.
Etymology
From wheat + grass.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.