ocarina
/ɒkəˈɹiːnə/
"ocarina" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ocarina” is uncommon English (frequency #56,331 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,331
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ocarina |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɒkəˈɹiːnə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ocarina” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ocarina is uncommon English at frequency #56,331 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɒkəˈɹiːnə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ocarina in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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 Italian ocarina (literally “little goose”), due to the musical instrument's resemblance to the animal. The correct English form is ocarina, spelled O-C-A-R-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian ocarina (literally “little goose”), due to the musical instrument's resemblance to the animal.
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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Using “ocarina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-C-A-R-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.