silty
"silty" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“silty” is uncommon English (frequency #83,752 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,752
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a noticeable amount of silt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-silty · silty · English
silty · rank #83,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,752
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sinfulness
Nearest frequency peer: sinfulness (+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 “silty”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shored
shored
16,253 corpus weight
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showery
16,252 corpus weight
- showoff
showoff
16,251 corpus weight
- silty
silty
16,249 corpus weight
- sinfulness
sinfulness
16,248 corpus weight
- sitch
sitch
16,245 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “silty” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “silty” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
silty is uncommon English at frequency #83,752 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for silty in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From silt + -y. The correct English form is silty, spelled S-I-L-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Having a noticeable amount of silt.
- 2Resembling or characteristic of silt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how silty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The silty river needed its channel dredged periodically to remain navigable.
Etymology
From silt + -y.
This word in other languages
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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