mikado
/mɪˈkɑːdəʊ/
"mikado" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mikado” is uncommon English (frequency #53,701 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,701
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mikado · mikado · English
mikado · rank #53,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,701
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH microstructure
Nearest frequency peer: microstructure (-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 “mikado”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- metatarsal
metatarsal
46,303 corpus weight
- mhm
mhm
46,302 corpus weight
- microstruct…
microstructure
46,301 corpus weight
- mikado
mikado
46,300 corpus weight
- mindlessly
mindlessly
46,298 corpus weight
- mineralizat…
mineralization
46,297 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mikado” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mikado |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɪˈkɑːdəʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mikado” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mikado is uncommon English at frequency #53,701 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɪˈkɑːdəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mikado, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”). The correct English form is mikado, spelled M-I-K-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
- 2Any emperor of Japan.
- 3A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack.
- 4A fabric having a stiff twill weave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mikado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The mikados of Japan are its emperors.
An interval of eighty years, occupied by two mikado of whose doings nothing is recorded, brings us to the celebrated female sovereign who invaded and conquered Korea.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).
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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