settee
/sɛˈtiː/
"settee" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“settee” is an uncommon English word, ranked #57,060 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #57,060
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | settee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɛˈtiː/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “settee” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for settee is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɛˈtiː/. Corpus data places it at rank #57,060 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for settee, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unclear, possibly from settle (“seat, long bench”) + -ee (diminutive suffix). The correct English form is settee, spelled S-E-T-T-E-E.
Definition
- 1A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
Etymology
Unclear, possibly from settle (“seat, long bench”) + -ee (diminutive suffix).
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 “settee”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-T-T-E-E - 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.