Seven Sisters

name

"seven-sisters" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Seven Sisters” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.

Corpus desk

Index EN-seven-sisters · Seven Sisters · English

Seven Sisters · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for Seven Sisters
PropertyValue
HeadwordSeven Sisters
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “Seven Sisters” in English

Seven Sisterssits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Seven Sisters is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

Seven Sisters has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Seven Sisters, spelled S-E-V-E-N- -S-I-S-T-E-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
  2. 2
    A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
  3. 3
    The Pleiades.
  4. 4
    A small area of Tottenham, borough of Haringey, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees (OS grid ref TQ3388).
  5. 5
    A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208).
  6. 6
    A group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style.
  7. 7
    An unincorporated community in Duval County, Texas, United States.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Seven Sisters appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Thirty minutes later I was in a BMW with a blue flasher and a fresh set of black coats, running reds and doing downtown Moscow in the wrong lane. Next thing I knew, I was up in one of the Seven Sisters, with Volkov—

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Seven Sisters"?
"Seven Sisters" is spelled S-E-V-E-N- -S-I-S-T-E-R-S.
What does "Seven Sisters" mean?
As a proper noun, "Seven Sisters" means: A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
What language does "Seven Sisters" come from?
"Seven Sisters" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list