seabird
/ˈsiːbɜː(ɹ)d/
"seabird" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seabird” is uncommon English (frequency #61,099 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,099
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seabird |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsiːbɜː(ɹ)d/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “seabird” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
seabird is uncommon English at frequency #61,099 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsiːbɜː(ɹ)d/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.".
Zero misspellings are on record for seabird in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sea + bird. The correct English form is seabird, spelled S-E-A-B-I-R-D.
Definition
- 1Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.
Etymology
From sea + bird.
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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Using “seabird”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-A-B-I-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.