Ouyang
"ouyang" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ouyang” is uncommon English (frequency #78,906 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,906
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Chinese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ouyang · Ouyang · English
Ouyang · rank #78,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,906
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Ottumwa
Nearest frequency peer: Ottumwa (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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Long-tail ranks near “Ouyang”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- otitis
otitis
21,098 corpus weight
- Ottumwa
Ottumwa
21,097 corpus weight
- Ouyang
Ouyang
21,095 corpus weight
- ovulate
ovulate
21,093 corpus weight
- Ozuna
Ozuna
21,092 corpus weight
- paclitaxel
paclitaxel
21,091 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ouyang” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ouyang |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ouyang” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ouyang is uncommon English at frequency #78,906 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Chinese.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ouyang, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mandarin 歐陽 /欧阳 (Ōuyáng). The correct English form is Ouyang, spelled O-U-Y-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1A surname from Chinese.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ouyang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the eighth month of the year, Ou-yang was exiled to Ch'u-chou prefecture in eastern-central Anhui, where he was to remain until early in 1048 when he became Prefect of Yang-chou.
Etymology
From Mandarin 歐陽 /欧阳 (Ōuyáng).
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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