Daegu
/daˈɡuː/
"daegu" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Daegu” is uncommon English (frequency #54,106 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,106
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in South Korea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-daegu · Daegu · English
Daegu · rank #54,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,106
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dampness
Nearest frequency peer: dampness (+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 “Daegu”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crossroad
crossroad
45,900 corpus weight
- croton
croton
45,899 corpus weight
- Daegu
Daegu
45,895 corpus weight
- dampness
dampness
45,893 corpus weight
- decoupling
decoupling
45,889 corpus weight
- DefCon
DefCon
45,888 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Daegu” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Daegu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /daˈɡuː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Daegu” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Daegu is uncommon English at frequency #54,106 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /daˈɡuː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in South Korea.".
Daegu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Korean 대구(大邱) (Daegu, literally “great hill”). The correct English form is Daegu, spelled D-A-E-G-U.
Definition
- 1A city in South Korea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Daegu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Of the 599 new cases in South Korea announced on Monday, 377 were from the country's fourth largest city, Daegu, home to a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, to which the majority of the country's cases have been traced after some its members visited China's Wuhan city, the epicenter of the disease. More than half of South Korea's 4,000 cases have…
In a densely populated but otherwise quiet district in Daegu, a city in southeastern South Korea, a highly emotional standoff is underway.
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 대구(大邱) (Daegu, literally “great hill”).
This word in other languages
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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