sea cow
/ˈsiːˌkaʊ/
"sea-cow" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sea cow” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sea-cow · sea cow · English
sea cow · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sea cow |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsiːˌkaʊ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sea cow” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sea cow is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsiːˌkaʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.".
sea cow doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sea + cow. The correct English form is sea cow, spelled S-E-A- -C-O-W.
Definition
- 1Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
Etymology
From sea + cow.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.