Guwahati
"guwahati" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Guwahati” is uncommon English (frequency #54,817 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,817
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large city in Assam, India.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guwahati · Guwahati · English
Guwahati · rank #54,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,817
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Grumbles
Nearest frequency peer: Grumbles (-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 “Guwahati”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grifter
grifter
45,190 corpus weight
- groupe
groupe
45,187 corpus weight
- growler
growler
45,186 corpus weight
- Grumbles
Grumbles
45,185 corpus weight
- Guwahati
Guwahati
45,184 corpus weight
- Haigh
Haigh
45,182 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Guwahati” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guwahati |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Guwahati” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Guwahati is uncommon English at frequency #54,817 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large city in Assam, India.".
Guwahati has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Assamese গুৱাহাটী (guahati). The correct English form is Guwahati, spelled G-U-W-A-H-A-T-I.
Definition
- 1A large city in Assam, India.
Etymology
Borrowed from Assamese গুৱাহাটী (guahati).
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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