Hasegawa
"hasegawa" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hasegawa” is uncommon English (frequency #57,420 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,420
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Japanese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hasegawa · Hasegawa · English
Hasegawa · rank #57,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,420
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH harmlessly
Nearest frequency peer: harmlessly (-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 “Hasegawa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Guangxi
Guangxi
42,586 corpus weight
- hairdryer
hairdryer
42,584 corpus weight
- harmlessly
harmlessly
42,582 corpus weight
- Hasegawa
Hasegawa
42,581 corpus weight
- hawkish
hawkish
42,580 corpus weight
- heightening
heightening
42,578 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Hasegawa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hasegawa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Hasegawa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Hasegawa is uncommon English at frequency #57,420 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Japanese.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hasegawa, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 長谷川 (Hasegawa). The correct English form is Hasegawa, spelled H-A-S-E-G-A-W-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Japanese.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 長谷川 (Hasegawa).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).