sentai
"sentai" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sentai” is uncommon English (frequency #66,280 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,280
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Japanese military unit; a squadron, task force, group or wing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sentai · sentai · English
sentai · rank #66,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,280
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH semiotic
Nearest frequency peer: semiotic (-1 rank slots)
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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 “sentai”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- seismology
seismology
33,723 corpus weight
- semiotic
semiotic
33,722 corpus weight
- sentai
sentai
33,721 corpus weight
- Sentosa
Sentosa
33,720 corpus weight
- sequined
sequined
33,719 corpus weight
- sexless
sexless
33,718 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sentai” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sentai |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sentai” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sentai is uncommon English at frequency #66,280 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Japanese military unit; a squadron, task force, group or wing.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sentai in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 戦隊. The correct English form is sentai, spelled S-E-N-T-A-I.
Definition
- 1A Japanese military unit; a squadron, task force, group or wing.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 戦隊.
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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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.