shee
"shee" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shee” is uncommon English (frequency #63,993 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,993
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of she.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shee · shee · English
shee · rank #63,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,993
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sheathing
Nearest frequency peer: sheathing (-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 “shee”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy
36,011 corpus weight
- sheathing
sheathing
36,009 corpus weight
- shee
shee
36,008 corpus weight
- Shenyang
Shenyang
36,007 corpus weight
- Shi'a
Shi'a
36,006 corpus weight
- shimmery
shimmery
36,005 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shee” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shee is uncommon English at frequency #63,993 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of she.".
shee doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is shee, spelled S-H-E-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of she.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There, on the other side, I did behold A Woman sitting sorrowfullie wailing, Rending her yeolow locks, like wyrie golde 10 About her shoulders careleslie downe trailing, And streames of teares from her faire eyes forth railing*: In her right hand a broken rod she held, Which towards heaven shee seemd on high to weld, [* Railing, flowing.]
Afterward shee sent a Gentleman aboord of vs, who declared that her Maiestie had good liking of our doings, and thanked vs for it, and also willed our Captaine to come the next day to the Court to take his leaue of her.
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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