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wheatsheaf

noun

wheatsheaf is spelled W-H-E-A-T-S-H-E-A-F: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wheatsheaf means “A sheaf of wheat, or its representation used as an emblem” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wheatsheaf is wheatsheaves.

How many letters and syllables are in wheatsheaf?

Letters10: W-H-E-A-T-S-H-E-A-F
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 100,430th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is wheatsheaf?

Wheatsheaf appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of wheatsheaf

  • wheatsheaves plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does wheatsheaf mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A sheaf of wheat, or its representation used as an emblem.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does wheatsheaf come from?

From wheat + sheaf.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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