suck-pint

noun

"suck-pint" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“suck-pint” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A drunkard.

Corpus desk

Index EN-suck-pint · suck-pint · English

suck-pint · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for suck-pint
PropertyValue
Headwordsuck-pint
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “suck-pint” in English

suck-pintranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

suck-pint is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A drunkard.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for suck-pint in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From suck + pint. The correct English form is suck-pint, spelled S-U-C-K---P-I-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    A drunkard.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how suck-pint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.
  2. As he was back in London 'in the first months of 1736,' running 'the little French theatre in the Haymarket,' and 'the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians' […], and producing Pasquin, Murphy's 'three years' of 'entertainments, hounds, and horses' gets so hard a knock that, if we had not all been brought up (as it were) in the strong persuasion that Fieldin…

Etymology

From suck + pint.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suck-pint"?
"suck-pint" is spelled S-U-C-K---P-I-N-T.
What does "suck-pint" mean?
As a noun, "suck-pint" means: A drunkard.
What is the origin of the word "suck-pint"?
From suck + pint. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list