Sze
/siː/
"sze" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sze” is uncommon English (frequency #77,249 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,249
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sze · Sze · English
Sze · rank #77,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,249
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Tallmadge
Nearest frequency peer: Tallmadge (+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 “Sze”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sundress
sundress
22,755 corpus weight
- superglue
superglue
22,754 corpus weight
- Sze
Sze
22,752 corpus weight
- Tallmadge
Tallmadge
22,751 corpus weight
- tamarack
tamarack
22,750 corpus weight
- tanka
tanka
22,749 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Sze” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sze |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /siː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #77,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sze” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sze is uncommon English at frequency #77,249 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /siː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Chinese surname from Cantonese.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Sze in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Cantonese 施 (si¹, IPA: /siː⁵⁵/). See also Szeto, which is from Cantonese 司徒 (si¹ tou⁴, IPA: /siː⁵⁵ tʰou̯²¹/). The correct English form is Sze, spelled S-Z-E.
Definition
- 1A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
Etymology
Borrowed from Cantonese 施 (si¹, IPA: /siː⁵⁵/). See also Szeto, which is from Cantonese 司徒 (si¹ tou⁴, IPA: /siː⁵⁵ tʰou̯²¹/).
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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