kitab
"kitab" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kitab” is uncommon English (frequency #81,471 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,471
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An Islamic book.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kitab · kitab · English
kitab · rank #81,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,471
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 9,255
- PHOTO-FINISH knitter
Nearest frequency peer: knitter (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “kitab”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Keown
Keown
18,535 corpus weight
- kinesthetic
kinesthetic
18,533 corpus weight
- Kinoshita
Kinoshita
18,532 corpus weight
- kitab
kitab
18,530 corpus weight
- knitter
knitter
18,529 corpus weight
- koku
koku
18,528 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “kitab” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kitab |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kitab” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
kitab is uncommon English at frequency #81,471 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Islamic book.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kitab, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb). The correct English form is kitab, spelled K-I-T-A-B.
Definition
- 1An Islamic book.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.