Syme
/ˈsaɪmiː/
"syme" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Syme” is uncommon English (frequency #64,045 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,045
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.
Corpus desk
Index EN-syme · Syme · English
Syme · rank #64,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,045
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH syllabic
Nearest frequency peer: syllabic (-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 “Syme”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- subzero
subzero
35,960 corpus weight
- sumac
sumac
35,959 corpus weight
- sux
sux
35,958 corpus weight
- syllabic
syllabic
35,957 corpus weight
- Syme
Syme
35,956 corpus weight
- Szabo
Szabo
35,955 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Syme” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Syme |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈsaɪmiː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Syme” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Syme is uncommon English at frequency #64,045 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈsaɪmiː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Syme in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Sȳmē. The correct English form is Syme, spelled S-Y-M-E.
Definition
- 1An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.
- 2A municipality of Rhodes regional unit, Greece.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Syme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
About the end of 1900 Symæan divers fishing from the sponge-fishing boat ‘Photios Lentiakós,’ under Captain Demetrios E. Kontos, pulled up the well-preserved hand of a bronze statue off the north coast of Antikythera, the ancient Aigile (Cerigotto), near the place called to-day Pinakakia, about an hour distant from the river (whose mouth is) the principal…
Etymology
From Latin Sȳmē.
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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