sica
"sica" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sica” is uncommon English (frequency #62,508 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,508
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sica · sica · English
sica · rank #62,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,508
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sherborne
Nearest frequency peer: Sherborne (-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 “sica”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shallot
shallot
37,496 corpus weight
- shebang
shebang
37,495 corpus weight
- Sherborne
Sherborne
37,494 corpus weight
- sica
sica
37,493 corpus weight
- sider
sider
37,492 corpus weight
- signe
signe
37,491 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sica” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sica |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sica” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sica is uncommon English at frequency #62,508 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sica in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin sīca. The correct English form is sica, spelled S-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sica appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[...] representation of a sheathed sickle on two fragments of a limestone plaque from Siristat (Figure 12). The plaque has not survived and only a sketch made by Jüthner records it. The publishers thought it showed a gladiatorial sica[…]
He had been honing the blades of sica daggers when Marie was brought in, work that could only be done in the secrecy of night. The huddle broke up and four Sicarii left, including the man with the nervous eyes.
Etymology
From Latin sīca.
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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