asea
/əˈsiː/
"asea" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“asea” is uncommon English (frequency #97,806 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,806
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - on the ocean; on a boat on the ocean
Corpus desk
Index EN-asea · asea · English
asea · rank #97,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,806
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Asem
Nearest frequency peer: Asem (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “asea”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aridity
aridity
2,201 corpus weight
- Arps
Arps
2,199 corpus weight
- ASBO
ASBO
2,197 corpus weight
- asea
asea
2,195 corpus weight
- Asem
Asem
2,194 corpus weight
- Aspinwall
Aspinwall
2,193 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “asea” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asea |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈsiː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “asea” in English
Rare enough to double-check
asea is uncommon English at frequency #97,806 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /əˈsiː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
asea has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a- + sea. The correct English form is asea, spelled A-S-E-A.
Definition
- 1on the ocean; on a boat on the ocean
- 2uncertain; (psychologically) adrift.
Etymology
From a- + sea.
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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