sitch
"sitch" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sitch” is uncommon English (frequency #83,756 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,756
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sitch · sitch · English
sitch · rank #83,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,756
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sinfulness
Nearest frequency peer: sinfulness (-3 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 “sitch”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- showoff
showoff
16,251 corpus weight
- silty
silty
16,249 corpus weight
- sinfulness
sinfulness
16,248 corpus weight
- sitch
sitch
16,245 corpus weight
- slacked
slacked
16,242 corpus weight
- slimline
slimline
16,240 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sitch” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sitch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sitch” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sitch is uncommon English at frequency #83,756 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sitch, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English sīċ (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīk, from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; a trickle”). The correct English form is sitch, spelled S-I-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1A brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sitch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] from the pit to Heortseges brook, along the brook to the mouth, and from the mouth to Byinnig-brook, and thence up along the brook to the sitch (i.e. runnel), and from the sitch to Sciteresford, and from the ford to Bromes Combe, […]
Etymology
From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English sīċ (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīk, from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; a trickle”).
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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