Iban
/ibən/
"iban" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Iban” is uncommon English (frequency #72,409 among 17,902 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,409
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A member of a branch of the Dayak peoples of Borneo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-iban · Iban · English
Iban · rank #72,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,409
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 17,902
- PHOTO-FINISH hypoglycemic
Nearest frequency peer: hypoglycemic (-2 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 neighbourhood for “Iban”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Howlin
Howlin
27,600 corpus weight
- hypoglycemic
hypoglycemic
27,594 corpus weight
- Iban
Iban
27,592 corpus weight
- ignorantly
ignorantly
27,589 corpus weight
- ilium
ilium
27,586 corpus weight
- impaling
impaling
27,585 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Iban” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Iban |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ibən/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Iban” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Iban is uncommon English at frequency #72,409 among 17,902 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ibən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of a branch of the Dayak peoples of Borneo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Iban in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Iban, spelled I-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1A member of a branch of the Dayak peoples of Borneo.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.