hiragana
/ˌhɪ.ɹəˈɡæ.nə/
"hiragana" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hiragana” is uncommon English (frequency #67,503 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,503
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hiragana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌhɪ.ɹəˈɡæ.nə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hiragana” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hiragana is uncommon English at frequency #67,503 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌhɪ.ɹəˈɡæ.nə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for hiragana in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 平(ひら)仮(が)名(な) (hiragana). The correct English form is hiragana, spelled H-I-R-A-G-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings.
- 2A letter of this syllabary.
Etymology
From Japanese 平(ひら)仮(が)名(な) (hiragana).
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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Using “hiragana”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-I-R-A-G-A-N-A - 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.