Oyama
"oyama" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Oyama” is uncommon English (frequency #95,230 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,230
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Japanese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oyama · Oyama · English
Oyama · rank #95,230 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,230
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Pachuca
Nearest frequency peer: Pachuca (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Oyama”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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What this shows Bars show where “Oyama” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oyama |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Oyama” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Oyama is uncommon English at frequency #95,230 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Japanese.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Oyama, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 小山 (Oyama), 尾山 (Oyama) or 大山 (Ōyama). The correct English form is Oyama, spelled O-Y-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Japanese.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 小山 (Oyama), 尾山 (Oyama) or 大山 (Ōyama).
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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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.