scullery
/ˈskʌləɹi/
"scullery" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scullery” is uncommon English (frequency #77,185 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,185
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scullery · scullery · English
scullery · rank #77,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,185
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seethe
Nearest frequency peer: seethe (+2 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 “scullery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- schooldays
schooldays
22,821 corpus weight
- scleroderma
scleroderma
22,820 corpus weight
- Scottsboro
Scottsboro
22,819 corpus weight
- scullery
scullery
22,816 corpus weight
- seethe
seethe
22,814 corpus weight
- segregation…
segregationist
22,813 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “scullery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scullery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈskʌləɹi/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scullery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scullery is uncommon English at frequency #77,185 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈskʌləɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for scullery, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English squylerie, from Anglo-Norman squillerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella. The correct English form is scullery, spelled S-C-U-L-L-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scullery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English squylerie, from Anglo-Norman squillerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella.
This word in other languages
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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