sea swallow
"sea-swallow" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sea swallow” 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 May 6, 2026) - The common tern (Sterna hirundo).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sea swallow |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sea swallow” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sea swallow is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sea swallow in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is sea swallow, spelled S-E-A- -S-W-A-L-L-O-W.
Definition
- 1The common tern (Sterna hirundo).
- 2The storm petrel.
- 3A mollusc of genus Glaucus.
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.
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Using “sea swallow”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-A- -S-W-A-L-L-O-W - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.