dashi
/ˈdæʃi/
"dashi" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dashi” is uncommon English (frequency #90,338 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,338
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A type of soup or cooking stock, often made from kelp.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dashi · dashi · English
dashi · rank #90,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,338
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 26,416
- PHOTO-FINISH darter
Nearest frequency peer: darter (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dashi”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- daren't
daren't
9,666 corpus weight
- darter
darter
9,664 corpus weight
- dashi
dashi
9,663 corpus weight
- daunt
daunt
9,662 corpus weight
- dawah
dawah
9,661 corpus weight
- daylong
daylong
9,660 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dashi” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dashi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdæʃi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dashi” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dashi is uncommon English at frequency #90,338 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdæʃi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of soup or cooking stock, often made from kelp.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dashi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 出汁 (dashi, “essence, dashi soup”) (hiragana だし), from noun form of 出す (dasu, “to draw, to extract”). The correct English form is dashi, spelled D-A-S-H-I.
Definition
- 1A type of soup or cooking stock, often made from kelp.
Etymology
From Japanese 出汁 (dashi, “essence, dashi soup”) (hiragana だし), from noun form of 出す (dasu, “to draw, to extract”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.