Words · Rare
glasswort
9 letters · 8 distinct letters
- noun
bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
- noun
fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
Why this word counts
- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 70: the largest list we accept, where the rarer words live.
- How common it is
- Too rare to measure in everyday writing.
- In the spelling bee
- Not playable It uses more than seven different letters, so it can’t fit in a hive.