ocarina
/ɒkəˈɹiːnə/
"ocarina" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ocarina” is uncommon English (frequency #56,331 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,331
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ocarina · ocarina · English
ocarina · rank #56,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,331
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Nyquist
Nearest frequency peer: Nyquist (-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 “ocarina”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nylons
nylons
43,673 corpus weight
- Nyquist
Nyquist
43,672 corpus weight
- ocarina
ocarina
43,670 corpus weight
- odometer
odometer
43,668 corpus weight
- offloading
offloading
43,667 corpus weight
- Ohl
Ohl
43,666 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ocarina” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “ocarina” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ocarina is uncommon English at frequency #56,331 among 1,431 “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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).