Kaczynski
/kəˈzɪn.ski/
"kaczynski" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kaczynski” is uncommon English (frequency #77,824 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,824
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Polish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kaczynski · Kaczynski · English
Kaczynski · rank #77,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,824
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kaki
Nearest frequency peer: kaki (+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 “Kaczynski”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Jhansi
Jhansi
22,182 corpus weight
- Kaczynski
Kaczynski
22,177 corpus weight
- kaki
kaki
22,176 corpus weight
- Kassim
Kassim
22,175 corpus weight
- Keiser
Keiser
22,171 corpus weight
- Kenn
Kenn
22,170 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Kaczynski” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaczynski |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kəˈzɪn.ski/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Kaczynski” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Kaczynski is uncommon English at frequency #77,824 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kəˈzɪn.ski/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Polish.".
Kaczynski doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Polish Kaczyński. The correct English form is Kaczynski, spelled K-A-C-Z-Y-N-S-K-I.
Definition
- 1A surname from Polish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kaczynski appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.”
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish Kaczyński.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).