keirin
"keirin" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“keirin” is uncommon English (frequency #70,802 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,802
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A form of track cycling originating in Japan, where riders must initially race behind a motorised pace-setter, the derny.
Corpus desk
Index EN-keirin · keirin · English
keirin · rank #70,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,802
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kersey
Nearest frequency peer: kersey (+3 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 “keirin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Jurong
Jurong
29,203 corpus weight
- keirin
keirin
29,199 corpus weight
- kersey
kersey
29,196 corpus weight
- Khoury
Khoury
29,194 corpus weight
- kickstand
kickstand
29,193 corpus weight
- Kishan
Kishan
29,191 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “keirin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keirin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “keirin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
keirin is uncommon English at frequency #70,802 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A form of track cycling originating in Japan, where riders must initially race behind a motorised pace-setter, the derny.".
keirin has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 競輪 (keirin, “racing cycles”). The correct English form is keirin, spelled K-E-I-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1A form of track cycling originating in Japan, where riders must initially race behind a motorised pace-setter, the derny.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how keirin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The keirin is one of the few track cycling events not originating in the West, having been developed in Japan. […] Keirin is extrememly popular in Japan, in particular because of gambling on the races.
Japan, however, has developed the distinctive cycling subculture of Keirin racing. Launched in Japanese velodromes in 1948 as a state regulated system designed to cream-off a percentage of stake money to support Japan's newly reconstituted bicycle industry […]
Etymology
From Japanese 競輪 (keirin, “racing cycles”).
This word in other languages
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).