sheepshead
"sheepshead" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sheepshead” is uncommon English (frequency #90,982 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,982
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A fish of the species Archosargus probatocephalus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sheepshead · sheepshead · English
sheepshead · rank #90,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,982
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Shashank
Nearest frequency peer: Shashank (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “sheepshead”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shama
shama
9,026 corpus weight
- Shapps
Shapps
9,024 corpus weight
- Sharron
Sharron
9,022 corpus weight
- Shashank
Shashank
9,021 corpus weight
- sheepshead
sheepshead
9,019 corpus weight
- shish
shish
9,015 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sheepshead” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sheepshead |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sheepshead” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sheepshead is uncommon English at frequency #90,982 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sheepshead, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sheep + -s- + head. The correct English form is sheepshead, spelled S-H-E-E-P-S-H-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1A fish of the species Archosargus probatocephalus.
- 2A trick-taking card game.
- 3A foolish person.
Etymology
From sheep + -s- + head.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).