seacoast
"seacoast" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seacoast” is uncommon English (frequency #62,491 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,491
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean.
Corpus desk
Index EN-seacoast · seacoast · English
seacoast · rank #62,491 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,491
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seaborne
Nearest frequency peer: seaborne (-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 “seacoast”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- screencap
screencap
37,513 corpus weight
- seaborne
seaborne
37,511 corpus weight
- seacoast
seacoast
37,510 corpus weight
- seagrass
seagrass
37,509 corpus weight
- seaworthy
seaworthy
37,508 corpus weight
- seh
seh
37,507 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “seacoast” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seacoast |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “seacoast” in English
Rare enough to double-check
seacoast is uncommon English at frequency #62,491 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for seacoast, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English see-cost, see-coste, see coost, equivalent to sea + coast. Compare West Frisian seekoast (“seacoast”), Dutch zeekust (“seacoast”), German Seeküste (“seacoast”). The correct English form is seacoast, spelled S-E-A-C-O-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how seacoast appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast.
Etymology
From Middle English see-cost, see-coste, see coost, equivalent to sea + coast. Compare West Frisian seekoast (“seacoast”), Dutch zeekust (“seacoast”), German Seeküste (“seacoast”).
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).