Krakatoa
/ˌkɹɑ.kəˈtoʊ.ə/
"krakatoa" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Krakatoa” is uncommon English (frequency #86,439 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,439
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia
Corpus desk
Index EN-krakatoa · Krakatoa · English
Krakatoa · rank #86,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,439
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kotlin
Nearest frequency peer: Kotlin (-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 “Krakatoa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Koirala
Koirala
13,566 corpus weight
- Kolmogorov
Kolmogorov
13,564 corpus weight
- Kotlin
Kotlin
13,563 corpus weight
- Krakatoa
Krakatoa
13,562 corpus weight
- kuh
kuh
13,561 corpus weight
- Kwiatkowski
Kwiatkowski
13,560 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Krakatoa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Krakatoa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌkɹɑ.kəˈtoʊ.ə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Krakatoa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Krakatoa is uncommon English at frequency #86,439 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌkɹɑ.kəˈtoʊ.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia".
No misspelling variants are generated for Krakatoa in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Krakatoa, spelled K-R-A-K-A-T-O-A.
Definition
- 1a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia
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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