kati
"kati" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kati” is uncommon English (frequency #66,774 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,774
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A weight equivalent to about 1.5 pounds, adopted as a standard by British companies.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kati · kati · English
kati · rank #66,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,774
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kaul
Nearest frequency peer: Kaul (+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 “kati”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kaman
Kaman
33,230 corpus weight
- Kars
Kars
33,229 corpus weight
- kati
kati
33,227 corpus weight
- Kaul
Kaul
33,226 corpus weight
- Keele
Keele
33,225 corpus weight
- Keels
Keels
33,224 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kati” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kati |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kati” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kati is uncommon English at frequency #66,774 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A weight equivalent to about 1.5 pounds, adopted as a standard by British companies.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kati, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Malay kati; see below. The correct English form is kati, spelled K-A-T-I.
Definition
- 1A weight equivalent to about 1.5 pounds, adopted as a standard by British companies.
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay kati; see below.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).