sah
"sah" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sah” is uncommon English (frequency #50,208 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,208
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronunciation spelling of sir.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sah · sah · English
sah · rank #50,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,208
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Rushdie
Nearest frequency peer: Rushdie (-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 “sah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- roti
roti
49,796 corpus weight
- Rushdie
Rushdie
49,794 corpus weight
- sah
sah
49,793 corpus weight
- Salafi
Salafi
49,792 corpus weight
- Sani
Sani
49,791 corpus weight
- Satanism
Satanism
49,790 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sah is uncommon English at frequency #50,208 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pronunciation spelling of sir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sah in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is sah, spelled S-A-H.
Definition
- 1Pronunciation spelling of sir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The door was opened by a long Negro in a white jacket, who grinned familiarly when Lord Lambeth asked for Mr. Westgate. “He ain’t at home, sah; he’s downtown at his o’fice.”
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).