seasick
/ˈsiːsɪk/
"seasick" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seasick” is uncommon English (frequency #68,625 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,625
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a ship at sea.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seasick |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsiːsɪk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “seasick” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
seasick is uncommon English at frequency #68,625 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsiːsɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a ship at sea.".
seasick has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 seke, equivalent to sea + sick. The correct English form is seasick, spelled S-E-A-S-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a ship at sea.
Etymology
From Middle English see seke, equivalent to sea + sick.
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 “seasick”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-A-S-I-C-K - 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.