Kaila
"kaila" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kaila” is uncommon English (frequency #97,183 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,183
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kaila · Kaila · English
Kaila · rank #97,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,183
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kafkaesque
Nearest frequency peer: Kafkaesque (-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 “Kaila”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- jone
jone
2,825 corpus weight
- kaddish
kaddish
2,820 corpus weight
- Kafkaesque
Kafkaesque
2,819 corpus weight
- Kaila
Kaila
2,818 corpus weight
- Kalish
Kalish
2,817 corpus weight
- Kaneohe
Kaneohe
2,816 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Kaila” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaila |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Kaila” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Kaila is uncommon English at frequency #97,183 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kaila, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla. The correct English form is Kaila, spelled K-A-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kaila appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How we got to Kate I don't know. My mother must have sought it to keep as clear as possible the link to her grandmother Kaila, not realizing how intensely Catholic a name it then was.
Etymology
From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).