Swedish
/ˈswiː.dɪʃ/
"swedish" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Swedish” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #5,088 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #5,088
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Sw...
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 | Swedish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈswiː.dɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Swedish” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Swedish is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈswiː.dɪʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,088 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Sw...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Swedish, with forms such as "sewdish", "sswedish", and "swdeish". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "swish", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Swede + -ish. Cognate with Dutch Zweeds, German Schwedisch. The correct English form is Swedish, spelled S-W-E-D-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.
Etymology
From Swede + -ish. Cognate with Dutch Zweeds, German Schwedisch.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sewdish,sswedish,swdeish,sweddish,swedihs,swedishh,swedissh,swedsih,sweidsh,swwedish,wsedish
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Swedish - 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.
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Using “Swedish”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-W-E-D-I-S-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈswiː.dɪʃ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “swish” - see the side-by-side comparison. Swedish vs swish
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.