snus
/snuːs/
"snus" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“snus” is uncommon English (frequency #84,761 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,761
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of tobacco snuff consumed in the form of a moist powder which is placed under the (usually upper) lip, without chewing, for extended periods of time.
Corpus desk
Index EN-snus · snus · English
snus · rank #84,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,761
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slosh
Nearest frequency peer: slosh (-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 “snus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- skywalk
skywalk
15,244 corpus weight
- slosh
slosh
15,243 corpus weight
- snus
snus
15,240 corpus weight
- soporific
soporific
15,237 corpus weight
- Sorokin
Sorokin
15,236 corpus weight
- soundproofi…
soundproofing
15,235 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “snus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /snuːs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “snus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
snus is uncommon English at frequency #84,761 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /snuːs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of tobacco snuff consumed in the form of a moist powder which is placed under the (usually upper) lip, without chewing, for extended periods of time.".
snus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Swedish snus. The correct English form is snus, spelled S-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1A type of tobacco snuff consumed in the form of a moist powder which is placed under the (usually upper) lip, without chewing, for extended periods of time.
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish snus.
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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