Rishikesh
"rishikesh" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rishikesh” is uncommon English (frequency #77,152 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,152
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Uttarakhand, India.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rishikesh · Rishikesh · English
Rishikesh · rank #77,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,152
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Ringgold
Nearest frequency peer: Ringgold (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Rishikesh”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ribose
ribose
22,853 corpus weight
- Ringgold
Ringgold
22,850 corpus weight
- Rishikesh
Rishikesh
22,849 corpus weight
- RNR
RNR
22,847 corpus weight
- roop
roop
22,844 corpus weight
- Rosalia
Rosalia
22,843 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Rishikesh” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rishikesh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Rishikesh” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Rishikesh is uncommon English at frequency #77,152 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Uttarakhand, India.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Rishikesh, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindi ऋषिकेश (ŕṣikeś). The correct English form is Rishikesh, spelled R-I-S-H-I-K-E-S-H.
Definition
- 1A city in Uttarakhand, India.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rishikesh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi ऋषिकेश (ŕṣikeś).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).