Ragusa
"ragusa" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ragusa” is uncommon English (frequency #96,391 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,391
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A province of Sicily, Italy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ragusa · Ragusa · English
Ragusa · rank #96,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,391
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 21,470
- PHOTO-FINISH ragamuffin
Nearest frequency peer: ragamuffin (-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 “Ragusa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- propyl
propyl
3,619 corpus weight
- putatively
putatively
3,615 corpus weight
- ragamuffin
ragamuffin
3,611 corpus weight
- Ragusa
Ragusa
3,610 corpus weight
- Rahab
Rahab
3,609 corpus weight
- Rattigan
Rattigan
3,605 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ragusa” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ragusa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ragusa” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ragusa is uncommon English at frequency #96,391 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Ragusa has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Ragusa, from Latin Ragusia. Probably from Proto-Albanian *rāguša (“grape”) (modern Albanian rrush) The correct English form is Ragusa, spelled R-A-G-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1A province of Sicily, Italy.
- 2The capital of Ragusa, Italy.
- 3Former name of Dubrovnik: a city and port in southern Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea.
- 4The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered in Dubrovnik.
- 5A habitational surname from Italian.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Ragusa, from Latin Ragusia. Probably from Proto-Albanian *rāguša (“grape”) (modern Albanian rrush)
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ragusa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.