Jemulpo

name

"jemulpo" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Jemulpo” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of Incheon: a major city in South Korea.

Corpus desk

Index EN-jemulpo · Jemulpo · English

Jemulpo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "J" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for Jemulpo
PropertyValue
HeadwordJemulpo
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “Jemulpo” in English

Jemulporanks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Jemulpo is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of Incheon: a major city in South Korea.".

Jemulpo has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Jemulpo, spelled J-E-M-U-L-P-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Obsolete form of Incheon: a major city in South Korea.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Jemulpo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. While the board in New York gave him the green light, and Allen departed for Korea while leaving his wife in Shanghai. He arrived at Jemulpo on September 20, 1884. Thus, in the four-millennium Korean history, Allen arrived in Korea as the first Protestant missionary (albeit his religious status had to remain hidden) and the era of Protestant missions comm…
  2. There once was a famous Confucian scholar in the late Joseon Dynasty. One day, a gentleman told this scholar about a train that traveled between the cities of Hanyang (today’s Seoul) and Jemulpo (today’s Incheon).

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Jemulpo"?
"Jemulpo" is spelled J-E-M-U-L-P-O.
What does "Jemulpo" mean?
As a proper noun, "Jemulpo" means: Obsolete form of Incheon: a major city in South Korea.
What language does "Jemulpo" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list