Rilke
/ˈɹɪlkə/
"rilke" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rilke” is uncommon English (frequency #63,950 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,950
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Austrian poet and novelist.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rilke · Rilke · English
Rilke · rank #63,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,950
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH riverine
Nearest frequency peer: riverine (+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 “Rilke”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- replicator
replicator
36,058 corpus weight
- reputational
reputational
36,055 corpus weight
- Rilke
Rilke
36,051 corpus weight
- riverine
riverine
36,049 corpus weight
- rocksteady
rocksteady
36,045 corpus weight
- Rosas
Rosas
36,043 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Rilke” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rilke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɪlkə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Rilke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Rilke is uncommon English at frequency #63,950 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɹɪlkə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Rilke in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Rilke, spelled R-I-L-K-E.
Definition
- 1Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Austrian poet and novelist.
- 2A surname.
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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