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sithe

/saɪð/noun, verb, conjunction

sithe is spelled S-I-T-H-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sithe means “Alternative spelling of sith” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sithe is sithes.

How many letters and syllables are in sithe?

Letters5: S-I-T-H-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is sithe?

Sithe appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce sithe?

  • /saɪð/

Sithe has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with sithe?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sithe.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: heist.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of sithe

  • sithes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • sithing participle, present
  • sithed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sithe mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of sith.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA sigh.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo journey, travel, wayfare.

  2. 2

    datedTo sigh.

    c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance

conjunction

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of sith (“since”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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