sheik
noun
sheik is spelled S-H-E-I-K. The wrong spelling people search most is shiek: about 950 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 4 in 10 of all searches for the word. Sheik is a noun meaning “Alternative form of sheikh”. The plural of sheik is sheiks or shuyookh.
How many letters and syllables are in sheik?
| Letters | 5: S-H-E-I-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, shiek, about 950 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell sheik?
Sheik is spelled S-H-E-I-K. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 4 in 10 of the searches for sheik in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is sheik?
Sheik appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sheik?
Sheik has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with sheik
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: shaikh, shaykh, sheikh.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of sheik
- sheiks plural
- shuyookh plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sheik mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative form of sheikh.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).