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wintergreen

/ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/noun

wintergreen is spelled W-I-N-T-E-R-G-R-E-E-N: 11 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wintergreen means “Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wintergreen is wintergreens.

How many letters and syllables are in wintergreen?

Letters11: W-I-N-T-E-R-G-R-E-E-N
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 62,179th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is wintergreen?

Wintergreen appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th 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).

How do you pronounce wintergreen?

  • /ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/

Wintergreen has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-wintergreen.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of wintergreen

  • wintergreens plural

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

What does wintergreen mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteAny evergreen plant.

  2. 2

    Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)

  3. 3

    Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen

  4. 4

    Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen

  5. 5

    Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa

  6. 6

    Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.

  7. 7

    Genus Orthilia

  8. 8

    Genus Moneses

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

Wintergreen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpirole, pyrole (evergreen perennial of the genus Pyrola)
GermanWintergrün (evergreen perennial of the genus Pyrola), Scheinbeere (Gaultheria procumbens)
Spanishsiempreverde (Gaultheria procumbens)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does wintergreen come from?

From winter + green.

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

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