Indian sign
"indian-sign" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Indian sign” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A curse causing loss of will power or persistent bad luck.
Corpus desk
Index EN-indian-sign · Indian sign · English
Indian sign · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Indian sign |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Indian sign” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Indian sign is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A curse causing loss of will power or persistent bad luck.".
Indian sign has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Indian sign, spelled I-N-D-I-A-N- -S-I-G-N.
Definition
- 1A curse causing loss of will power or persistent bad luck.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Indian sign appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"You certainly are my jinx, sonny. You have hung the Indian sign on me all right."
"We have been jinxed with a vengeance. Some one has held the Indian sign on us for sure."
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.