swathe
/sweɪð/
"swathe" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“swathe” is uncommon English (frequency #67,872 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,872
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A bandage; a band.
Corpus desk
Index EN-swathe · swathe · English
swathe · rank #67,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,872
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Susa
Nearest frequency peer: Susa (-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 “swathe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sunless
sunless
32,132 corpus weight
- superfan
superfan
32,131 corpus weight
- Susa
Susa
32,130 corpus weight
- swathe
swathe
32,129 corpus weight
- synchronisa…
synchronisation
32,127 corpus weight
- synonymy
synonymy
32,126 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “swathe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | swathe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sweɪð/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “swathe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
swathe is uncommon English at frequency #67,872 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sweɪð/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A bandage; a band.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for swathe, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English swathe, swath, from Old English swaþu, swæþ (“bandage”), probably akin to Old English swaþul, sweþel (“a swathe, wrap, band, bandage”). The correct English form is swathe, spelled S-W-A-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1A bandage; a band.
Etymology
From Middle English swathe, swath, from Old English swaþu, swæþ (“bandage”), probably akin to Old English swaþul, sweþel (“a swathe, wrap, band, bandage”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).