seasick
/ˈsiːsɪk/
"seasick" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seasick” is uncommon English (frequency #68,625 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,625
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a ship at sea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-seasick · seasick · English
seasick · rank #68,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,625
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH scrapyard
Nearest frequency peer: scrapyard (-2 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 “seasick”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- schemer
schemer
31,382 corpus weight
- scrapyard
scrapyard
31,378 corpus weight
- seasick
seasick
31,376 corpus weight
- seta
seta
31,374 corpus weight
- sextant
sextant
31,373 corpus weight
- Shambhala
Shambhala
31,370 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “seasick” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “seasick” in English
Rare enough to double-check
seasick is uncommon English at frequency #68,625 among 6,566 “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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