sagamore
/ˈsæɡəmɔː/
"sagamore" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sagamore” is uncommon English (frequency #89,858 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,858
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonym of sachem.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sagamore · sagamore · English
sagamore · rank #89,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,858
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH Sahaba
Nearest frequency peer: Sahaba (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sagamore”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ruggedly
ruggedly
10,150 corpus weight
- Sacher
Sacher
10,145 corpus weight
- sagamore
sagamore
10,143 corpus weight
- Sahaba
Sahaba
10,142 corpus weight
- Salama
Salama
10,140 corpus weight
- Sather
Sather
10,136 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sagamore” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sagamore |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsæɡəmɔː/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sagamore” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sagamore is uncommon English at frequency #89,858 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsæɡəmɔː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
sagamore doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From an Algonquian language; compare Abenaki sôgmô, sôgemô (“chief”), Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”), and Penobscot sagama, sagema, sagemo, sangemo (“chief”), all ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa (“male chief”). Doublet of sachem. The correct English form is sagamore, spelled S-A-G-A-M-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Synonym of sachem.
- 2Synonym of sachem.
- 3A high-ranking officer of the Tammany Hall political organization responsible for taking care of its property.
Etymology
From an Algonquian language; compare Abenaki sôgmô, sôgemô (“chief”), Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”), and Penobscot sagama, sagema, sagemo, sangemo (“chief”), all ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa (“male chief”). Doublet of sachem.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.