kore
/ˈkɔːɹeɪ/
"kore" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kore” is uncommon English (frequency #64,480 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,480
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kore · kore · English
kore · rank #64,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,480
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Komatsu
Nearest frequency peer: Komatsu (-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 “kore”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Klass
Klass
35,524 corpus weight
- Komatsu
Komatsu
35,522 corpus weight
- kore
kore
35,521 corpus weight
- Koreatown
Koreatown
35,520 corpus weight
- Kremer
Kremer
35,519 corpus weight
- kth
kth
35,518 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kore” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kore |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɔːɹeɪ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kore” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kore is uncommon English at frequency #64,480 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɔːɹeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kore in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”). The correct English form is kore, spelled K-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mus. No 685: Archaic kore of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This kore is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other kores,[…].
Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
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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