Shikoku
/ʃɪˈkəʊkuː/
"shikoku" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shikoku” is uncommon English (frequency #76,329 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,329
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The fourth-largest of Japan's islands.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shikoku · Shikoku · English
Shikoku · rank #76,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,329
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shiller
Nearest frequency peer: shiller (+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 “Shikoku”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shallowness
shallowness
23,678 corpus weight
- shayla
shayla
23,676 corpus weight
- Sheedy
Sheedy
23,675 corpus weight
- sheeps
sheeps
23,674 corpus weight
- Shikoku
Shikoku
23,672 corpus weight
- shiller
shiller
23,671 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Shikoku” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shikoku |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ʃɪˈkəʊkuː/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Shikoku” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Shikoku is uncommon English at frequency #76,329 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ʃɪˈkəʊkuː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The fourth-largest of Japan's islands.".
Shikoku doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 四国 (しこく, Shikoku, “four provinces”), from Middle Chinese 四 (sìj, “four”) + 國 (kwok, “state”, “country”). (dog): < Japanese 四国犬 (shikoku-inu, “Shikoku dog”), named after the island where they originated. The correct English form is Shikoku, spelled S-H-I-K-O-K-U.
Definition
- 1The fourth-largest of Japan's islands.
Etymology
From Japanese 四国 (しこく, Shikoku, “four provinces”), from Middle Chinese 四 (sìj, “four”) + 國 (kwok, “state”, “country”). (dog): < Japanese 四国犬 (shikoku-inu, “Shikoku dog”), named after the island where they originated.
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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