Kumasi
"kumasi" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kumasi” is uncommon English (frequency #60,919 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,919
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Ghana.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kumasi · Kumasi · English
Kumasi · rank #60,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,919
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kraut
Nearest frequency peer: Kraut (-2 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 “Kumasi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kirkby
Kirkby
39,091 corpus weight
- kish
kish
39,089 corpus weight
- Krasnodar
Krasnodar
39,085 corpus weight
- Kraut
Kraut
39,084 corpus weight
- Kumasi
Kumasi
39,082 corpus weight
- lactobacill…
lactobacillus
39,080 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Kumasi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kumasi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Kumasi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Kumasi is uncommon English at frequency #60,919 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Ghana.".
Kumasi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Kumasi, spelled K-U-M-A-S-I.
Definition
- 1A city in Ghana.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kumasi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The pastor of the largest Pentecostal church in Kumasi was stomping back and forth onstage, using his feet as exclamation marks.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).