suicide note

noun

"suicide-note" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A message, usually a written note, left by someone who later attempts or commits suicide, usually explaining the reason for the suicide.

Corpus desk

Index EN-suicide-note · suicide note · English

suicide note · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for suicide note
PropertyValue
Headwordsuicide note
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “suicide note” in English

suicide noteranks 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

suicide note is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A message, usually a written note, left by someone who later attempts or commits suicide, usually explaining the reason for the suicide.".

Zero misspellings are on record for suicide note in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is suicide note, spelled S-U-I-C-I-D-E- -N-O-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A message, usually a written note, left by someone who later attempts or commits suicide, usually explaining the reason for the suicide.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Park left a suicide note to efface his trail and vanished - to turn up here the next day as Bonnie's grandfather.
  2. Twice I bought barbiturate pills, enough to finish anyone, and once I wrote a suicide note.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suicide note"?
"suicide note" is spelled S-U-I-C-I-D-E- -N-O-T-E.
What does "suicide note" mean?
As a noun, "suicide note" means: A message, usually a written note, left by someone who later attempts or commits suicide, usually explaining the reason for the suicide.
What language does "suicide note" come from?
"suicide note" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list