suki
/ˈsu.kɪʔ/
"suki" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suki” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,926
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a favored customer; a regular who receives preferential treatment
Corpus desk
Index EN-suki · suki · English
suki · rank #42,926 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,926
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH striptease
Nearest frequency peer: striptease (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “suki”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Stormont
Stormont
57,078 corpus weight
- straighter
straighter
57,077 corpus weight
- striptease
striptease
57,076 corpus weight
- suki
suki
57,075 corpus weight
- Sumerian
Sumerian
57,074 corpus weight
- supersede
supersede
57,073 corpus weight
What this shows “suki” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suki |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsu.kɪʔ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “suki”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around suki (IPA /ˈsu.kɪʔ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,926 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "a favored customer; a regular who receives preferential treatment".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for suki, with forms such as "skui", "ssuki", and "suik". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sun", "sum", "SUV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Tagalog suki, from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”, literally “principal guest”). The correct English form is suki, spelled S-U-K-I.
Definition
- 1a favored customer; a regular who receives preferential treatment
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suki appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near the opposite end of the suki continuum, the "subjective" pole, are special suki.
Frequent buyers in a particular store become the suki, so that with this kind of a relationship, the marketgoer gets an extra treat, like obtaining more tomatoes for the price of a kilo.
Etymology
Borrowed from Tagalog suki, from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”, literally “principal guest”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- skui
- ssuki
- suik
- sukki
- uski
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suki - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "suki", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).