shure
"shure" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shure” is uncommon English (frequency #57,069 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,069
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Eye dialect spelling of sure.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shure · shure · English
shure · rank #57,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,069
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shogunate
Nearest frequency peer: shogunate (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shure”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke
42,936 corpus weight
- shogunate
shogunate
42,933 corpus weight
- shure
shure
42,932 corpus weight
- shylock
shylock
42,931 corpus weight
- Sidon
Sidon
42,930 corpus weight
- Sindhu
Sindhu
42,928 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shure” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shure |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shure” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shure is uncommon English at frequency #57,069 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Eye dialect spelling of sure.".
shure has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is shure, spelled S-H-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Eye dialect spelling of sure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"You see, sir, quite hand in glove with Dashing Jerry; met in the same inn last night--preconcerted, you may be quite shure."
"Oh, Mr. Munro, shure here's a card for yees," handing me a lady's card.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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.