shama
"shama" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shama” is uncommon English (frequency #90,975 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,975
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama), a saxicoline songbird of India, glossy black with a white rump and brown underparts, and six other species in genus Copsychus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shama · shama · English
shama · rank #90,975 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,975
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Shapps
Nearest frequency peer: Shapps (+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 “shama”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- servlet
servlet
9,032 corpus weight
- sexologist
sexologist
9,029 corpus weight
- shama
shama
9,026 corpus weight
- Shapps
Shapps
9,024 corpus weight
- Sharron
Sharron
9,022 corpus weight
- Shashank
Shashank
9,021 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shama” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shama |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shama” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shama is uncommon English at frequency #90,975 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama), a saxicoline songbird of India, glossy black with a white rump and brown underparts, and six other species in genus Copsychus.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for shama, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindi [Term?]. The correct English form is shama, spelled S-H-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama), a saxicoline songbird of India, glossy black with a white rump and brown underparts, and six other species in genus Copsychus.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi [Term?].
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).