suman
"suman" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suman” is uncommon English (frequency #64,751 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,751
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rice cake from the Philippines made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik.
Corpus desk
Index EN-suman · suman · English
suman · rank #64,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,751
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sulky
Nearest frequency peer: sulky (-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 “suman”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- substantive…
substantively
35,253 corpus weight
- suckle
suckle
35,252 corpus weight
- sulky
sulky
35,251 corpus weight
- suman
suman
35,250 corpus weight
- survivable
survivable
35,249 corpus weight
- syncope
syncope
35,246 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “suman” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “suman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
suman is uncommon English at frequency #64,751 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rice cake from the Philippines made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for suman, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tagalog suman. The correct English form is suman, spelled S-U-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Rice cake from the Philippines made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik.
Etymology
From Tagalog suman.
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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