Sioux
/sjuː/
"sioux" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sioux” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,347. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,347
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Various formerly nomadic Native American tribes of the North American Great Plains.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sioux · Sioux · English
Sioux · rank #16,347 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,347
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH simulate
Nearest frequency peer: simulate (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Sioux”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- servicing
servicing
83,657 corpus weight
- shrinking
shrinking
83,656 corpus weight
- simulate
simulate
83,655 corpus weight
- Sioux
Sioux
83,654 corpus weight
- Sloan
Sloan
83,653 corpus weight
- sniff
sniff
83,652 corpus weight
What this shows “Sioux” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sioux |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /sjuː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Sioux”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Sioux (IPA /sjuː/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,347 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Various formerly nomadic Native American tribes of the North American Great Plains.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sioux, with forms such as "isoux", "siouxx", and "sioxu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "six", "sox", "Siu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Sioux, shortening of Nadouessioux, from Ojibwe naadawesiwag (“little snakes”), which could refer to the massasauga snake (Sistrurus catenatus), a small rattlesnake. The correct English form is Sioux, spelled S-I-O-U-X.
Definition
- 1Various formerly nomadic Native American tribes of the North American Great Plains.
Etymology
From French Sioux, shortening of Nadouessioux, from Ojibwe naadawesiwag (“little snakes”), which could refer to the massasauga snake (Sistrurus catenatus), a small rattlesnake.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isoux
- siouxx
- sioxu
- siuox
- soiux
- ssioux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sioux - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).