doujinshi
/dəʊˈd͡ʒɪnʃi/
"doujinshi" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doujinshi” is an uncommon English word, ranked #91,440 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #91,440
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A fan-produced book or magazine of Japanese fiction; especially manga.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doujinshi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dəʊˈd͡ʒɪnʃi/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “doujinshi” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for doujinshi is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dəʊˈd͡ʒɪnʃi/. Corpus data places it at rank #91,440 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A fan-produced book or magazine of Japanese fiction; especially manga.".
doujinshi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 同(どう)人(じん)誌(し) (dōjinshi, “fan-produced manga or essay booklets”), from 同(どう)人(じん) (dōjin, “group for the same interest”) + 誌(し) (shi, “magazine or a pamphlet”). The correct English form is doujinshi, spelled D-O-U-J-I-N-S-H-I.
Definition
- 1A fan-produced book or magazine of Japanese fiction; especially manga.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 同(どう)人(じん)誌(し) (dōjinshi, “fan-produced manga or essay booklets”), from 同(どう)人(じん) (dōjin, “group for the same interest”) + 誌(し) (shi, “magazine or a pamphlet”).
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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Using “doujinshi”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-O-U-J-I-N-S-H-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.