suffragette
/ˌsʌf.ɹəˈd͡ʒɛt/
"suffragette" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suffragette” is uncommon English (frequency #54,513 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,513
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-suffragette · suffragette · English
suffragette · rank #54,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,513
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH strum
Nearest frequency peer: strum (-1 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 “suffragette”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stoneman
stoneman
45,493 corpus weight
- striping
striping
45,490 corpus weight
- strum
strum
45,489 corpus weight
- suffragette
suffragette
45,488 corpus weight
- Sumatran
Sumatran
45,487 corpus weight
- superconduc…
superconductivity
45,485 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “suffragette” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suffragette |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌsʌf.ɹəˈd͡ʒɛt/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “suffragette” in English
Rare enough to double-check
suffragette is uncommon English at frequency #54,513 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌsʌf.ɹəˈd͡ʒɛt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for suffragette in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself. The correct English form is suffragette, spelled S-U-F-F-R-A-G-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how suffragette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed.
Etymology
From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.
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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