sulfite
/ˈsʌlfaɪt/
"sulfite" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sulfite” is uncommon English (frequency #75,457 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,457
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any salt of sulfurous acid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sulfite · sulfite · English
sulfite · rank #75,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,457
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sukhoi
Nearest frequency peer: Sukhoi (-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 “sulfite”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Stourbridge
Stourbridge
24,549 corpus weight
- strictness
strictness
24,548 corpus weight
- Sukhoi
Sukhoi
24,545 corpus weight
- sulfite
sulfite
24,544 corpus weight
- superscript
superscript
24,541 corpus weight
- suppressant
suppressant
24,540 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sulfite” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sulfite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌlfaɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sulfite” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sulfite is uncommon English at frequency #75,457 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsʌlfaɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any salt of sulfurous acid.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sulfite in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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 sulfur + -ite (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ous”). The correct English form is sulfite, spelled S-U-L-F-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Any salt of sulfurous acid.
Etymology
From sulfur + -ite (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ous”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).