Sule
"sule" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sule” is uncommon English (frequency #86,806 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,806
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sule · Sule · English
Sule · rank #86,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,806
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Suda
Nearest frequency peer: Suda (-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 “Sule”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- subacute
subacute
13,199 corpus weight
- subdomain
subdomain
13,197 corpus weight
- Suda
Suda
13,196 corpus weight
- Sule
Sule
13,195 corpus weight
- sunstone
sunstone
13,191 corpus weight
- supercup
supercup
13,190 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Sule” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sule |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sule” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sule is uncommon English at frequency #86,806 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sule, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Various origins: * Nigerian surname predominantly found in Northern Nigeria and among Hausa such as Maitama Sule, Sule Lamido, and Abdullahi Sule, and among Yoruba such as Olayinka Sule, Rofiat Sule, and Sule Ladipo, as well as other Nigerian states includi… The correct English form is Sule, spelled S-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
Various origins: * Nigerian surname predominantly found in Northern Nigeria and among Hausa such as Maitama Sule, Sule Lamido, and Abdullahi Sule, and among Yoruba such as Olayinka Sule, Rofiat Sule, and Sule Ladipo, as well as other Nigerian states including Kogi State. * Borrowed from Hungarian Süle, a pet form of the personal name Szilveszter. * Borrowed from Marathi सुळे (suḷe), a surname predominantly found in Maharashtra.
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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