Shibata
"shibata" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shibata” is uncommon English (frequency #67,042 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,042
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Japanese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shibata · Shibata · English
Shibata · rank #67,042 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,042
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shawarma
Nearest frequency peer: shawarma (-3 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 “Shibata”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sext
sext
32,965 corpus weight
- shapeshifti…
shapeshifting
32,963 corpus weight
- shawarma
shawarma
32,962 corpus weight
- Shibata
Shibata
32,959 corpus weight
- Shum
Shum
32,956 corpus weight
- sicken
sicken
32,954 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Shibata” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shibata |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Shibata” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Shibata is uncommon English at frequency #67,042 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Japanese.".
Shibata doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 柴田 (Shibata). The correct English form is Shibata, spelled S-H-I-B-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Japanese.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 柴田 (Shibata).
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).