issei
"issei" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“issei” is uncommon English (frequency #69,147 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,147
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of the first generation of Japanese immigrants to North America, South America, or Australia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-issei · issei · English
issei · rank #69,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,147
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH irreverence
Nearest frequency peer: irreverence (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “issei”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- inwood
inwood
30,858 corpus weight
- irie
irie
30,857 corpus weight
- irreverence
irreverence
30,856 corpus weight
- issei
issei
30,854 corpus weight
- jambalaya
jambalaya
30,852 corpus weight
- Jawad
Jawad
30,847 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “issei” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | issei |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “issei” in English
Rare enough to double-check
issei is uncommon English at frequency #69,147 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of the first generation of Japanese immigrants to North America, South America, or Australia.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for issei in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 一世 (issei). The correct English form is issei, spelled I-S-S-E-I.
Definition
- 1A member of the first generation of Japanese immigrants to North America, South America, or Australia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 一世 (issei).
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).