Shimura
"shimura" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shimura” is uncommon English (frequency #99,850 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,850
- 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-shimura · Shimura · English
Shimura · rank #99,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,850
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shart
Nearest frequency peer: shart (-4 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Shimura”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shamanistic
shamanistic
157 corpus weight
- shart
shart
155 corpus weight
- Shimura
Shimura
151 corpus weight
- shogi
shogi
147 corpus weight
- showplace
showplace
145 corpus weight
- shushing
shushing
143 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Shimura” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shimura |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Shimura” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Shimura is uncommon English at frequency #99,850 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Japanese.".
Shimura has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 志村 (Shimura). The correct English form is Shimura, spelled S-H-I-M-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Japanese.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 志村 (Shimura).
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.