snead
"snead" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“snead” is uncommon English (frequency #61,119 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,119
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To cut; lop; prune.
Corpus desk
Index EN-snead · snead · English
snead · rank #61,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,119
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slink
Nearest frequency peer: slink (-2 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 “snead”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- SIV
SIV
38,886 corpus weight
- skewing
skewing
38,885 corpus weight
- slink
slink
38,884 corpus weight
- snead
snead
38,882 corpus weight
- Solana
Solana
38,880 corpus weight
- sontag
sontag
38,879 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “snead” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snead |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “snead” in English
Rare enough to double-check
snead is uncommon English at frequency #61,119 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To cut; lop; prune.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for snead, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Verb from Middle English *sneden, *snæden (found in tosnæden), from Old English snǣdan (“to cut; feed”), from Proto-Germanic *snaidijaną, related to Middle High German sneiten, Icelandic sneiða, English snithe (“to cut”). More at snithe. Noun from Middle En… The correct English form is snead, spelled S-N-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1To cut; lop; prune.
Etymology
Verb from Middle English *sneden, *snæden (found in tosnæden), from Old English snǣdan (“to cut; feed”), from Proto-Germanic *snaidijaną, related to Middle High German sneiten, Icelandic sneiða, English snithe (“to cut”). More at snithe. Noun from Middle English snade, snede, from Old English snǣd (“piece, bit, slice; shaft, handle”), related to Icelandic sneið.
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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