Anju
"anju" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Anju” is uncommon English (frequency #82,996 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,996
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in South Pyongan Province, North Korea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-anju · Anju · English
Anju · rank #82,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,996
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Angulo
Nearest frequency peer: Angulo (-2 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 “Anju”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Angulo
Angulo
17,007 corpus weight
- Anju
Anju
17,005 corpus weight
- anthropoid
anthropoid
17,003 corpus weight
- antislavery
antislavery
17,002 corpus weight
- apeshit
apeshit
17,000 corpus weight
- Appleyard
Appleyard
16,998 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Anju” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anju |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Anju” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Anju is uncommon English at frequency #82,996 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in South Pyongan Province, North Korea.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Anju, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Korean 안주(安州) (Anju). The correct English form is Anju, spelled A-N-J-U.
Definition
- 1A city in South Pyongan Province, North Korea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Anju appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Japanese are now holding An-ju and the line of the Ching-chong River.
The Russian and Japanese scouts are separated only by the Ching-chong River, just north of An-ju.
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 안주(安州) (Anju).
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).