Suva
/ˈsuːvə/
"suva" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Suva” is uncommon English (frequency #57,113 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,113
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of Fiji.
| 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) |
Where “Suva” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Suva is uncommon English at frequency #57,113 among 54,294 “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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Using “Suva”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-V-A - 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.