rickshaw
/ˈɹɪkˌʃɔː/
"rickshaw" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rickshaw” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,050. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,050
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rickshaw |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɪkˌʃɔː/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rickshaw” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around rickshaw (IPA /ˈɹɪkˌʃɔː/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,050 among 21,470 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for rickshaw, with forms such as "irckshaw", "rcikshaw", and "ricckshaw". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 力(りき)車(しゃ) (rikisha), a clipping of 人(じん)力(りき)車(しゃ) (jinrikisha), from Middle Chinese 人力 (nyin lik, “human power”) + 車 (t͡ʃʰæ, “cart”) (compare Mandarin 人力車 /人力车 (rénlìchē)). The correct English form is rickshaw, spelled R-I-C-K-S-H-A-W.
Definition
- 1A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 力(りき)車(しゃ) (rikisha), a clipping of 人(じん)力(りき)車(しゃ) (jinrikisha), from Middle Chinese 人力 (nyin lik, “human power”) + 車 (t͡ʃʰæ, “cart”) (compare Mandarin 人力車 /人力车 (rénlìchē)).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irckshaw,rcikshaw,ricckshaw,rickhsaw,rickkshaw,ricksahw,rickshaww,rickshhaw,rickshwa,ricksshaw,ricskhaw,rikcshaw,rrickshaw
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rickshaw - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “rickshaw”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-I-C-K-S-H-A-W - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɹɪkˌʃɔː/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.