sure enough
"sure-enough" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sure enough” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Just as one would expect.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sure enough |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sure enough” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sure enough is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Just as one would expect.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sure enough in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is sure enough, spelled S-U-R-E- -E-N-O-U-G-H.
Definition
- 1Just as one would expect.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sure enough”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-R-E- -E-N-O-U-G-H - 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.