Kurosawa
"kurosawa" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kurosawa” is uncommon English (frequency #53,055 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,055
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Japanese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kurosawa · Kurosawa · English
Kurosawa · rank #53,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,055
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kogan
Nearest frequency peer: Kogan (-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 “Kurosawa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- kneecap
kneecap
46,950 corpus weight
- Knowlton
Knowlton
46,949 corpus weight
- Kogan
Kogan
46,947 corpus weight
- Kurosawa
Kurosawa
46,946 corpus weight
- Kurtis
Kurtis
46,945 corpus weight
- lakefront
lakefront
46,943 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Kurosawa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kurosawa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Kurosawa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Kurosawa is uncommon English at frequency #53,055 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Japanese.".
Kurosawa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 黒沢 (Kurosawa). The correct English form is Kurosawa, spelled K-U-R-O-S-A-W-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Japanese.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 黒沢 (Kurosawa).
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).