suture
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "suture", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "suture" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "suture" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
suture is aEnglishnoun. It means: A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound. Pronounced /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/. Often confused with sure and store.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suture |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for suture is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/. Corpus data places it at rank #28,395 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for suture, with forms such as "ssuture", "stuure", and "sutrue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "sure", "store", "stare", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) + -tūra (forms action nouns). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is suture, spelled S-U-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
- 2Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
- 3An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
- 4A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
- 5A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
- 6The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
- 7The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.
Etymology
From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) + -tūra (forms action nouns).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ssuture,stuure,sutrue,sutture,sutuer,suturre,suutre,usture
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Misspelling Variants of "suture"
Frequency rank: #28,395 in English
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