Sivan
"sivan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sivan” is uncommon English (frequency #51,997 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,997
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Iyar and before Tammuz.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sivan · Sivan · English
Sivan · rank #51,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,997
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sirloin
Nearest frequency peer: sirloin (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Sivan”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sinuous
sinuous
48,007 corpus weight
- sirloin
sirloin
48,005 corpus weight
- Sivan
Sivan
48,004 corpus weight
- skimp
skimp
48,003 corpus weight
- skunks
skunks
48,002 corpus weight
- slicer
slicer
48,000 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Sivan” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sivan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sivan” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Sivan is uncommon English at frequency #51,997 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Iyar and before Tammuz.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sivan in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hebrew סיוון (siván). The correct English form is Sivan, spelled S-I-V-A-N.
Definition
- 1The ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Iyar and before Tammuz.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew סיוון (siván).
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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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.