sylva
"sylva" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sylva” is uncommon English (frequency #86,822 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,822
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of silva.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sylva · sylva · English
sylva · rank #86,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,822
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH symbiont
Nearest frequency peer: symbiont (+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 “sylva”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- swashbuckler
swashbuckler
13,183 corpus weight
- switchover
switchover
13,182 corpus weight
- sylva
sylva
13,179 corpus weight
- symbiont
symbiont
13,178 corpus weight
- synchronise
synchronise
13,177 corpus weight
- tabard
tabard
13,176 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sylva” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sylva |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sylva” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sylva is uncommon English at frequency #86,822 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of silva.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sylva in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is sylva, spelled S-Y-L-V-A.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of silva.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sylva appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A solitary cotton-wood, with an occasional clump of willows, constitute the sylva of this portion of the river.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).