Sukkot
/suːˈkoʊt/
"sukkot" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sukkot” is uncommon English (frequency #97,596 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,596
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ancient biblical / Israelite / Jewish festival lasting seven days, celebrating the autumn harvest and commemorating the passage through the wilderness: observed from the 15th day to the 21st day...
Corpus desk
Index EN-sukkot · Sukkot · English
Sukkot · rank #97,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,596
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sulked
Nearest frequency peer: sulked (+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 “Sukkot”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Styria
Styria
2,411 corpus weight
- subframe
subframe
2,410 corpus weight
- subspecialty
subspecialty
2,409 corpus weight
- Sukkot
Sukkot
2,405 corpus weight
- sulked
sulked
2,404 corpus weight
- sunn
sunn
2,400 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Sukkot” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sukkot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /suːˈkoʊt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sukkot” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sukkot is uncommon English at frequency #97,596 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /suːˈkoʊt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An ancient biblical / Israelite / Jewish festival lasting seven days, celebrating the autumn harvest and commemorating the passage through the wilderness: observed from the 15th day to the 21st day...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Sukkot, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew סוכות / סֻכּוֹת (sukót). The correct English form is Sukkot, spelled S-U-K-K-O-T.
Definition
- 1An ancient biblical / Israelite / Jewish festival lasting seven days, celebrating the autumn harvest and commemorating the passage through the wilderness: observed from the 15th day to the 21st day of the month of Tishrei (Tishri).
Etymology
From Hebrew סוכות / סֻכּוֹת (sukót).
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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