roshi
"roshi" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“roshi” is uncommon English (frequency #67,000 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,000
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An elderly and revered Buddhist monk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roshi · roshi · English
roshi · rank #67,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,000
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH RPF
Nearest frequency peer: RPF (+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 “roshi”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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33,003 corpus weight
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33,001 corpus weight
- RPF
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33,000 corpus weight
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32,999 corpus weight
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32,998 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “roshi” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roshi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roshi” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
roshi is uncommon English at frequency #67,000 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An elderly and revered Buddhist monk.".
roshi has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 老師 (rōshi). The correct English form is roshi, spelled R-O-S-H-I.
Definition
- 1An elderly and revered Buddhist monk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roshi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A good abbot or roshi couldn't care less about power, and a truly enlightened philosopher-prince like the emperor Asoka of ancient India would become more interested in compassion for the suffering of humanity than in power over the states of the world.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 老師 (rōshi).
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 September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.