Ioannis
"ioannis" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ioannis” is uncommon English (frequency #98,269 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,269
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A transliteration of the Greek male given name Ιωάννης (Ioánnis).
Corpus desk
Index EN-ioannis · Ioannis · English
Ioannis · rank #98,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,269
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH irrelevancy
Nearest frequency peer: irrelevancy (+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 “Ioannis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- insectivoro…
insectivorous
1,736 corpus weight
- intensifier
intensifier
1,735 corpus weight
- interlink
interlink
1,734 corpus weight
- Ioannis
Ioannis
1,732 corpus weight
- irrelevancy
irrelevancy
1,731 corpus weight
- irritatingly
irritatingly
1,730 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ioannis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ioannis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ioannis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ioannis is uncommon English at frequency #98,269 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A transliteration of the Greek male given name Ιωάννης (Ioánnis).".
Ioannis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Transliteration of Greek Ιωάννης (Ioánnis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Giannis. The correct English form is Ioannis, spelled I-O-A-N-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1A transliteration of the Greek male given name Ιωάννης (Ioánnis).
Etymology
Transliteration of Greek Ιωάννης (Ioánnis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Giannis.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).