Seven Sisters
"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
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Seven Sisters |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Seven Sisters” in English
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
- 1A group of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
- 2A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
- 3The Pleiades.
- 4A small area of Tottenham, borough of Haringey, Greater London, named after a ring of seven elm trees (OS grid ref TQ3388).
- 5A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8208).
- 6A group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style.
- 7An unincorporated community in Duval County, Texas, United States.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Seven Sisters appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.