Sylhet
"sylhet" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sylhet” is uncommon English (frequency #80,025 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,025
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Bangladesh.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sylhet · Sylhet · English
Sylhet · rank #80,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,025
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH swivels
Nearest frequency peer: swivels (-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 “Sylhet”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- susu
susu
19,979 corpus weight
- switchgear
switchgear
19,978 corpus weight
- swivels
swivels
19,977 corpus weight
- Sylhet
Sylhet
19,976 corpus weight
- synchronous…
synchronously
19,975 corpus weight
- syncretism
syncretism
19,974 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Sylhet” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sylhet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sylhet” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sylhet is uncommon English at frequency #80,025 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Bangladesh.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sylhet in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Bengali সিলেট (śileṭ), from earlier Middle Bengali সিলহট, সিরহট (silhôṭ, sirhôṭ), itself a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit শ্রীহট্ট (śrīhaṭṭa, “Beautiful Market”). The correct English form is Sylhet, spelled S-Y-L-H-E-T.
Definition
- 1A city in Bangladesh.
Etymology
Borrowed from Bengali সিলেট (śileṭ), from earlier Middle Bengali সিলহট, সিরহট (silhôṭ, sirhôṭ), itself a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit শ্রীহট্ট (śrīhaṭṭa, “Beautiful Market”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).