Edo
/ˈɛdəʊ/
"edo" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Edo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,067) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,067
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Former name of Tokyo: the capital city of Japan
Corpus desk
Index EN-edo · Edo · English
Edo · rank #22,067 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,067
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH EDM
Nearest frequency peer: EDM (-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 neighbours of confusable “Edo”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- drawback
drawback
77,938 corpus weight
- EDM
EDM
77,935 corpus weight
- Edo
Edo
77,934 corpus weight
- elliptical
elliptical
77,933 corpus weight
- eloquent
eloquent
77,932 corpus weight
- eminence
eminence
77,931 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Edo” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Edo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛdəʊ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Edo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Edo is neighbouring look-alikes ("ex", "et", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /ˈɛdəʊ/. Frequency #22,067 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Former name of Tokyo: the capital city of Japan".
Zero misspellings are on record for Edo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ex", "et", "EU", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 江戸 (えど, Edo, literally “cove entrance”). The correct English form is Edo, spelled E-D-O.
Definition
- 1Former name of Tokyo: the capital city of Japan
Etymology
From Japanese 江戸 (えど, Edo, literally “cove entrance”).
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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