Shula
"shula" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shula” is uncommon English (frequency #67,832 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,832
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A diminutive of the female given name Shulamith, from Hebrew.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shula · Shula · English
Shula · rank #67,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,832
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shitstorm
Nearest frequency peer: shitstorm (-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 “Shula”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Shepparton
Shepparton
32,174 corpus weight
- shirking
shirking
32,172 corpus weight
- shitstorm
shitstorm
32,171 corpus weight
- Shula
Shula
32,169 corpus weight
- Sklar
Sklar
32,165 corpus weight
- slippy
slippy
32,164 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Shula” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shula |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Shula” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Shula is uncommon English at frequency #67,832 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A diminutive of the female given name Shulamith, from Hebrew.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Shula, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of Shulamith, Shulamit, Shulamis, diminutives of Hebrew שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית (shulamít). The correct English form is Shula, spelled S-H-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1A diminutive of the female given name Shulamith, from Hebrew.
Etymology
Clipping of Shulamith, Shulamit, Shulamis, diminutives of Hebrew שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית (shulamít).
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).