Suva
/ˈsuːvə/
"suva" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Suva” is uncommon English (frequency #57,113 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,113
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Fiji.
Corpus desk
Index EN-suva · Suva · English
Suva · rank #57,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,113
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH suppressive
Nearest frequency peer: suppressive (-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 “Suva”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sunlit
sunlit
42,892 corpus weight
- superbike
superbike
42,891 corpus weight
- suppressive
suppressive
42,889 corpus weight
- Suva
Suva
42,888 corpus weight
- synchronici…
synchronicity
42,886 corpus weight
- Syrah
Syrah
42,884 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Suva” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Suva |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈsuːvə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Suva” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Suva is uncommon English at frequency #57,113 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈsuːvə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of Fiji.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Suva in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Fijian Suva, from suva (“mound”), from Proto-Central Eastern Oceanic *supa. The correct English form is Suva, spelled S-U-V-A.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Fiji.
Etymology
Borrowed from Fijian Suva, from suva (“mound”), from Proto-Central Eastern Oceanic *supa.
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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