aiga
"aiga" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aiga” is uncommon English (frequency #98,945 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,945
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Samoan extended family.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aiga · aiga · English
aiga · rank #98,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,945
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Akademi
Nearest frequency peer: Akademi (+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 “aiga”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Agard
Agard
1,061 corpus weight
- aiga
aiga
1,056 corpus weight
- Akademi
Akademi
1,055 corpus weight
- Alegria
Alegria
1,053 corpus weight
- alehouse
alehouse
1,052 corpus weight
- Aleut
Aleut
1,051 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aiga” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aiga |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aiga” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aiga is uncommon English at frequency #98,945 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aiga, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Samoan aiga (“relative, family”). The correct English form is aiga, spelled A-I-G-A.
Definition
- 1A Samoan extended family.
- 2A type of bus, typically a modified pickup truck, used by private entrepreneurs in American Samoa.
Etymology
Borrowed from Samoan aiga (“relative, family”).
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).