Shashi
"shashi" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shashi” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,043. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,043
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shashi · Shashi · English
Shashi · rank #49,043 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,043
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Shana
Nearest frequency peer: Shana (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Shashi”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sectarianism
sectarianism
50,962 corpus weight
- semicircular
semicircular
50,961 corpus weight
- sez
sez
50,960 corpus weight
- Shana
Shana
50,959 corpus weight
- Shashi
Shashi
50,958 corpus weight
- shortcoming
shortcoming
50,955 corpus weight
What this shows “Shashi” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shashi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Shashi”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Shashi, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,043 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Shashi, with forms such as "hsashi", "sahshi", and "shahsi". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "smash", "sushi", "slash", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沙市 (Shāshì). The correct English form is Shashi, spelled S-H-A-S-H-I.
Definition
- 1A district of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Shashi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The stream first emerges from the mountains at the Ichang gorge, 960 nautical miles from its mouth : and some fifty miles below this point the boulders and gravel of the upper river give place to banks of soft alluvium, the outline of which varies every season, notwithstanding the gigantic embankments with which it is sought to retain the stream in its ch…
State-run China Central Television said a flood crest hit Shashi in central Hubei province at 147 feet, just eight inches short of the level that would have required levees to be blasted and the flooding of the homes of as many as 330,000 people.
Etymology
c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沙市 (Shāshì).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsashi
- sahshi
- shahsi
- shashhi
- shasih
- shasshi
- shhashi
- shsahi
- sshashi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Shashi - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).