Ansan
"ansan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ansan” is uncommon English (frequency #97,791 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,791
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ansan · Ansan · English
Ansan · rank #97,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,791
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Antipas
Nearest frequency peer: Antipas (+3 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 “Ansan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- anet
anet
2,217 corpus weight
- Angelino
Angelino
2,216 corpus weight
- angioedema
angioedema
2,215 corpus weight
- angstrom
angstrom
2,214 corpus weight
- Ansan
Ansan
2,210 corpus weight
- Antipas
Antipas
2,207 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ansan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ansan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ansan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ansan is uncommon English at frequency #97,791 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ansan in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Korean 안산(安山) (Ansan). The correct English form is Ansan, spelled A-N-S-A-N.
Definition
- 1A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ansan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lee Ho-jin died eight years ago at the age of 16, one of 250 sophomore students whose lives were taken when the Sewol ferry sank off the southwestern coast of South Korea on April 16, 2014. More than 300 people died that day, with all the students coming from Danwon High School in Ansan, a city just south of Seoul.
Bono, a neighborhood in Ansan, 30 km southwest of Seoul, is one of many South Korean enclaves known for its shamans. Its streets are marked with swastika emblems—symbols of prosperity in Hinduism and Buddhism—indicating the presence of shamans available for consultation.
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 안산(安山) (Ansan).
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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