Susannah
"susannah" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Susannah” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,103
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna.
Corpus desk
Index EN-susannah · Susannah · English
Susannah · rank #35,103 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,103
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH surly
Nearest frequency peer: surly (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Susannah”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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strolled
64,902 corpus weight
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stunningly
64,901 corpus weight
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Sudbury
64,900 corpus weight
- surly
surly
64,899 corpus weight
- Susannah
Susannah
64,898 corpus weight
- tarnish
tarnish
64,894 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Susannah” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Susannah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Susannah” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Susannah, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,103 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Susannah, with forms such as "ssuannah", "ssusannah", and "suasnnah". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Susanne", "sunnah", "Susanna", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Susannah, spelled S-U-S-A-N-N-A-H.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Susanna.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssuannah
- ssusannah
- suasnnah
- susanah
- susananh
- susannahh
- susannha
- susnanah
- sussannah
- ussannah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Susannah - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Susannah", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
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.