Nikolaos
"nikolaos" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Nikolaos” is uncommon English (frequency #92,927 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,927
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλαος (Nikólaos) used in Greece. The equivalent female name is Nikoleta.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nikolaos · Nikolaos · English
Nikolaos · rank #92,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,927
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Ningxia
Nearest frequency peer: Ningxia (+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 “Nikolaos”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- neutralising
neutralising
7,086 corpus weight
- Newspeak
Newspeak
7,084 corpus weight
- nightjar
nightjar
7,078 corpus weight
- Nikolaos
Nikolaos
7,074 corpus weight
- Ningxia
Ningxia
7,073 corpus weight
- Northwich
Northwich
7,064 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Nikolaos” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nikolaos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Nikolaos” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Nikolaos is uncommon English at frequency #92,927 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλαος (Nikólaos) used in Greece. The equivalent female name is Nikoleta.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Nikolaos in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νικάω (nikáō, “I conquer”) + λαός (laós, “people”). Doublet of Nicholas. The correct English form is Nikolaos, spelled N-I-K-O-L-A-O-S.
Definition
- 1A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλαος (Nikólaos) used in Greece. The equivalent female name is Nikoleta.
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νικάω (nikáō, “I conquer”) + λαός (laós, “people”). Doublet of Nicholas.
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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