shaheed
/ʃəˈhiːd/
"shaheed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shaheed” is uncommon English (frequency #50,222 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,222
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shaheed · shaheed · English
shaheed · rank #50,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,222
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH semaphore
Nearest frequency peer: semaphore (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shaheed”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- selectable
selectable
49,784 corpus weight
- Selig
Selig
49,783 corpus weight
- Selwyn
Selwyn
49,782 corpus weight
- semaphore
semaphore
49,781 corpus weight
- shaheed
shaheed
49,779 corpus weight
- shames
shames
49,777 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shaheed” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shaheed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃəˈhiːd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shaheed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shaheed is uncommon English at frequency #50,222 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʃəˈhiːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shaheed in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd, “martyr, witness”). The correct English form is shaheed, spelled S-H-A-H-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shaheed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She has told the child that her father was a shaheed, a martyr, concealing the real story of her brutal conception.
Etymology
From Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd, “martyr, witness”).
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.