Asan
"asan" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Asan” is uncommon English (frequency #81,124 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,124
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A municipal city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-asan · Asan · English
Asan · rank #81,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,124
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Ashbourne
Nearest frequency peer: Ashbourne (+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 “Asan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- argosy
argosy
18,881 corpus weight
- arsenide
arsenide
18,879 corpus weight
- Asan
Asan
18,877 corpus weight
- Ashbourne
Ashbourne
18,876 corpus weight
- asswipe
asswipe
18,874 corpus weight
- astutely
astutely
18,873 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Asan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Asan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Asan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Asan is uncommon English at frequency #81,124 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A municipal city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.".
Asan has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Korean 아산(牙山) (Asan). The correct English form is Asan, spelled A-S-A-N.
Definition
- 1A municipal city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Asan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This policy of pursuing war and peace simultaneously was also what the Chinese commander Ye Zhizhao^([sic – meaning Zhichao]) in Yashan recommended:[…] In mid-July, the British ambassador in Beijing, Nicholas O'Conor remarked that while there were as many as 10,000 Japanese soldiers in Korea, there were only 2,000 Chinese soldiers,³⁴ not to mention the fa…
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 아산(牙山) (Asan).
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).