Asoka
/əˈʃoʊkə/
"asoka" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Asoka” is uncommon English (frequency #85,001 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,001
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of Ashoka.
Corpus desk
Index EN-asoka · Asoka · English
Asoka · rank #85,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,001
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ascites
Nearest frequency peer: ascites (-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 “Asoka”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Arnab
Arnab
15,004 corpus weight
- ascites
ascites
15,001 corpus weight
- Asoka
Asoka
15,000 corpus weight
- aspic
aspic
14,998 corpus weight
- ASVAB
ASVAB
14,997 corpus weight
- Avicenna
Avicenna
14,993 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Asoka” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Asoka |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əˈʃoʊkə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Asoka” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Asoka is uncommon English at frequency #85,001 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /əˈʃoʊkə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of Ashoka.".
Asoka has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀅𑀲𑁄𑀓 (asoka), from Sanskrit अशोक (aśoka, literally “without grief”). Doublet of Ashoka and Ashok. The correct English form is Asoka, spelled A-S-O-K-A.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Ashoka.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀅𑀲𑁄𑀓 (asoka), from Sanskrit अशोक (aśoka, literally “without grief”). Doublet of Ashoka and Ashok.
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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