Kiyoshi
"kiyoshi" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kiyoshi” is uncommon English (frequency #63,743 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,743
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Japanese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kiyoshi · Kiyoshi · English
Kiyoshi · rank #63,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,743
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Klerk
Nearest frequency peer: Klerk (+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 “Kiyoshi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kirov
Kirov
36,261 corpus weight
- Kishi
Kishi
36,260 corpus weight
- Kiyoshi
Kiyoshi
36,258 corpus weight
- Klerk
Klerk
36,257 corpus weight
- kooks
kooks
36,256 corpus weight
- Koons
Koons
36,255 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Kiyoshi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kiyoshi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Kiyoshi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Kiyoshi is uncommon English at frequency #63,743 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name from Japanese.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kiyoshi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese きよし (Kiyoshi). The correct English form is Kiyoshi, spelled K-I-Y-O-S-H-I.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Japanese.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kiyoshi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi, known for his courage to challenge the U.S. government policy to evacuate, relocate, and intern all persons of Japanese ancestry during the Pacific War, was born in Seattle on April 23, 1918.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese きよし (Kiyoshi).
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).