spitz
/spɪts/
"spitz" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spitz” is uncommon English (frequency #50,815 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,815
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spitz · spitz · English
spitz · rank #50,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,815
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Southwell
Nearest frequency peer: Southwell (-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 “spitz”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- solemnity
solemnity
49,191 corpus weight
- Sondheim
Sondheim
49,190 corpus weight
- sourcebook
sourcebook
49,189 corpus weight
- Southwell
Southwell
49,188 corpus weight
- spitz
spitz
49,186 corpus weight
- statin
statin
49,181 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spitz” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spitz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /spɪts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spitz” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spitz is uncommon English at frequency #50,815 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /spɪts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for spitz, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Spitz, from spitz (“pointed”); so called from the tapering shape of its muzzle. The correct English form is spitz, spelled S-P-I-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed.
Etymology
From German Spitz, from spitz (“pointed”); so called from the tapering shape of its muzzle.
This word in other languages
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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