kopi
"kopi" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kopi” is uncommon English (frequency #74,238 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,238
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A variety of gypsum found in southern Australia, sometimes containing opal, and traditionally used by Indigenous Australian in powdered form as body ornamentation for mourning ceremonies.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kopi · kopi · English
kopi · rank #74,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,238
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 9,255
- PHOTO-FINISH kookaburra
Nearest frequency peer: kookaburra (-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 “kopi”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kolbe
Kolbe
25,766 corpus weight
- kookaburra
kookaburra
25,764 corpus weight
- kopi
kopi
25,763 corpus weight
- kori
kori
25,762 corpus weight
- Kosciusko
Kosciusko
25,761 corpus weight
- krab
krab
25,760 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “kopi” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kopi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kopi” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
kopi is uncommon English at frequency #74,238 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A variety of gypsum found in southern Australia, sometimes containing opal, and traditionally used by Indigenous Australian in powdered form as body ornamentation for mourning ceremonies.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kopi, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Baagandji kopi, gabi. The correct English form is kopi, spelled K-O-P-I.
Definition
- 1A variety of gypsum found in southern Australia, sometimes containing opal, and traditionally used by Indigenous Australian in powdered form as body ornamentation for mourning ceremonies.
Etymology
From Baagandji kopi, gabi.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 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.