sith
/siːθ/
"sith" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sith” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,231. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,231
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A journey, way.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sith · sith · English
sith · rank #30,231 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,231
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Singaporean
Nearest frequency peer: Singaporean (-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 “sith”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Silvia
Silvia
69,773 corpus weight
- simplex
simplex
69,772 corpus weight
- Singaporean
Singaporean
69,771 corpus weight
- sith
sith
69,770 corpus weight
- snorting
snorting
69,768 corpus weight
- snows
snows
69,767 corpus weight
What this shows “sith” 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 | sith |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /siːθ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #30,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sith”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around sith (IPA /siːθ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,231 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for sith, with forms such as "isth", "sithh", and "sitth". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "six", "SMH", "STD", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English sith (“journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion”), from Old English sīþ (“journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinþ, from Proto-Germanic *sinþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to go, head… The correct English form is sith, spelled S-I-T-H.
Definition
- 1A journey, way.
- 2One's journey of life, experience, one's lot, also by extension life, lifetime.
- 3An instant in time, a point in time or an occasion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sith appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The holy gost before vs glad / ffull softly on his sithe
Christ's sith of sorrow and suffering.
Etymology
From Middle English sith (“journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion”), from Old English sīþ (“journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinþ, from Proto-Germanic *sinþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to go, head”). Cognate with Faroese sinn (“time”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (sinþs, “path, movement”), Icelandic sinn (“time”). See also send.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isth
- sithh
- sitth
- ssith
- stih
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sith - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sith", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).