Segel
"segel" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Segel” is uncommon English (frequency #71,896 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,896
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Hebrew.
Corpus desk
Index EN-segel · Segel · English
Segel · rank #71,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,896
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Seifert
Nearest frequency peer: Seifert (+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 “Segel”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Schrödinger
Schrödinger
28,111 corpus weight
- scrutinise
scrutinise
28,108 corpus weight
- seagoing
seagoing
28,107 corpus weight
- Segel
Segel
28,105 corpus weight
- Seifert
Seifert
28,104 corpus weight
- Selleck
Selleck
28,102 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Segel” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Segel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Segel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Segel is uncommon English at frequency #71,896 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Hebrew.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Segel, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Segal. The correct English form is Segel, spelled S-E-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1A surname from Hebrew.
Etymology
Variant of Segal.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).