Sukkot
/suːˈkoʊt/
"sukkot" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sukkot” is uncommon English (frequency #97,596 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,596
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “Sukkot” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Sukkot is uncommon English at frequency #97,596 among 54,294 “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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Using “Sukkot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-K-K-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.