SOTU
"sotu" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“SOTU” is uncommon English (frequency #91,005 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,005
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The annual State of the Union address of the President of the United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sotu · SOTU · English
SOTU · rank #91,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,005
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Smet
Nearest frequency peer: Smet (-4 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 “SOTU”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- slinking
slinking
9,004 corpus weight
- Smet
Smet
9,000 corpus weight
- SOTU
SOTU
8,996 corpus weight
- spiciness
spiciness
8,992 corpus weight
- spiderweb
spiderweb
8,991 corpus weight
- splanchnic
splanchnic
8,990 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “SOTU” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | SOTU |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “SOTU” in English
Rare enough to double-check
SOTU is uncommon English at frequency #91,005 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The annual State of the Union address of the President of the United States.".
SOTU doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is SOTU, spelled S-O-T-U.
Definition
- 1The annual State of the Union address of the President of the United States.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SOTU appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He intends to use the SOTU message as nothing more that another Hollywood stunt similar to the pep rally he had on the WH lawn after the impeachment vote.
Bush won't be stressing those particular points as he hits the pre-SOTU stump circuit, but the "if it's good enough for 2006 it's good enough for now"
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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