kagome
"kagome" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kagome” is uncommon English (frequency #76,904 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,904
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An arrangement of laths composed of interlaced triangles such that each point where two laths cross has four neighboring points. Although called a lattice, it is more closely related to the trihexa...
Corpus desk
Index EN-kagome · kagome · English
kagome · rank #76,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,904
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kahuna
Nearest frequency peer: kahuna (+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 “kagome”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- jingoism
jingoism
23,101 corpus weight
- jingoistic
jingoistic
23,100 corpus weight
- kagome
kagome
23,097 corpus weight
- kahuna
kahuna
23,096 corpus weight
- kairos
kairos
23,095 corpus weight
- Kaushal
Kaushal
23,093 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kagome” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kagome |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kagome” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kagome is uncommon English at frequency #76,904 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kagome, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 籠目 (かごめ, kagome). The correct English form is kagome, spelled K-A-G-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1An arrangement of laths composed of interlaced triangles such that each point where two laths cross has four neighboring points. Although called a lattice, it is more closely related to the trihexagonal tiling than to a mathematical lattice.
- 2Kagome Kagome, a Japanese children's game.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 籠目 (かごめ, kagome).
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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