sepulcher
/ˈsɛpəlkə/
"sepulcher" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sepulcher” is uncommon English (frequency #99,837 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,837
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of sepulchre.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sepulcher · sepulcher · English
sepulcher · rank #99,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,837
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH septicemia
Nearest frequency peer: septicemia (-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 “sepulcher”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sealift
sealift
171 corpus weight
- selfhood
selfhood
167 corpus weight
- septicemia
septicemia
165 corpus weight
- sepulcher
sepulcher
164 corpus weight
- sepulchral
sepulchral
163 corpus weight
- shamanistic
shamanistic
157 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sepulcher” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sepulcher |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛpəlkə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sepulcher” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sepulcher is uncommon English at frequency #99,837 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɛpəlkə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of sepulchre.".
sepulcher doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is sepulcher, spelled S-E-P-U-L-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of sepulchre.
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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