sister

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sister”

Definition

1. 1
   A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
2. 2
   A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
3. 3
   Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
4. 4
   A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
5. 5
   Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
6. 6
   A black woman.
7. 7
   A form of address to a woman.
8. 8
   A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
9. 9
   An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
10. 10
    A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
11. 11
    Something in the same class.
12. 12
    One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.

Etymology

PIE word *swésōr From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”). Doublet of soror. Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”). In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”). The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren. The sense for "Adelpha-genus butterfly" is a semantic loan from translingual Adelpha, itself from Ancient Greek ἀδελφή (adelphḗ, “sister”).

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

• isster
• sisetr
• sisster
• sisterr
• sistre
• sistter
• sitser
• ssister
• ssiter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sister - 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.

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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sister", not the corpus desk frequency band.