settee
/sɛˈtiː/
"settee" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“settee” is uncommon English (frequency #57,060 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,060
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
Corpus desk
Index EN-settee · settee · English
settee · rank #57,060 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,060
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sessile
Nearest frequency peer: sessile (-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 “settee”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- semantically
semantically
42,945 corpus weight
- semple
semple
42,944 corpus weight
- sessile
sessile
42,942 corpus weight
- settee
settee
42,941 corpus weight
- Shami
Shami
42,940 corpus weight
- shastri
shastri
42,938 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “settee” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “settee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
settee is uncommon English at frequency #57,060 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɛˈtiː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how settee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
“You might have to calm this down, my darling. I'm not sure this settee can take it.” “This settee has taken centuries of our love.”
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).