Sirius
/ˈsɪɹi.əs/
"sirius" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sirius” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,774. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,774
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Lo...
Corpus desk
Index EN-sirius · Sirius · English
Sirius · rank #20,774 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,774
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sinatra
Nearest frequency peer: Sinatra (-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 “Sirius”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- shorty
shorty
79,230 corpus weight
- silky
silky
79,229 corpus weight
- Sinatra
Sinatra
79,228 corpus weight
- Sirius
Sirius
79,227 corpus weight
- slaying
slaying
79,226 corpus weight
- smallpox
smallpox
79,225 corpus weight
What this shows “Sirius” 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 | Sirius |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɪɹi.əs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Sirius”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Sirius (IPA /ˈsɪɹi.əs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,774 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sirius, with forms such as "isrius", "siirus", and "sirisu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "strips", "Straus", "spirits", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”). The correct English form is Sirius, spelled S-I-R-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
- 2The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.
Etymology
From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isrius
- siirus
- sirisu
- siriuss
- sirrius
- siruis
- sriius
- ssirius
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sirius - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).