seki
"seki" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seki” is uncommon English (frequency #74,490 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,490
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In the game of Go, a state of impasse where neither player can benefit from playing in a location
Corpus desk
Index EN-seki · seki · English
seki · rank #74,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,490
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seely
Nearest frequency peer: seely (-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 “seki”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- scampered
scampered
25,519 corpus weight
- scrapper
scrapper
25,517 corpus weight
- seely
seely
25,512 corpus weight
- seki
seki
25,511 corpus weight
- Sela
Sela
25,510 corpus weight
- sensu
sensu
25,508 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “seki” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seki |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “seki” in English
Rare enough to double-check
seki is uncommon English at frequency #74,490 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In the game of Go, a state of impasse where neither player can benefit from playing in a location".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for seki, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese セキ (seki). The correct English form is seki, spelled S-E-K-I.
Definition
- 1In the game of Go, a state of impasse where neither player can benefit from playing in a location
Etymology
From Japanese セキ (seki).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).