Syrah
/sɪˈɹa/
"syrah" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Syrah” is uncommon English (frequency #57,117 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,117
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative letter-case form of syrah.
Corpus desk
Index EN-syrah · Syrah · English
Syrah · rank #57,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,117
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH tabular
Nearest frequency peer: tabular (+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 “Syrah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Suva
Suva
42,888 corpus weight
- synchronici…
synchronicity
42,886 corpus weight
- Syrah
Syrah
42,884 corpus weight
- tabular
tabular
42,883 corpus weight
- tawdry
tawdry
42,882 corpus weight
- Temecula
Temecula
42,880 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Syrah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Syrah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪˈɹa/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Syrah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Syrah is uncommon English at frequency #57,117 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɪˈɹa/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative letter-case form of syrah.".
Syrah has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Syrah, spelled S-Y-R-A-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative letter-case form of syrah.
Synonyms
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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