shinigami
/ˌʃɪn.ɪˈɡɑːmi/
"shinigami" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shinigami” is uncommon English (frequency #68,634 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,634
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A deity and/or personification of death.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shinigami · shinigami · English
shinigami · rank #68,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,634
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shareware
Nearest frequency peer: shareware (-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 “shinigami”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sextant
sextant
31,373 corpus weight
- Shambhala
Shambhala
31,370 corpus weight
- shareware
shareware
31,368 corpus weight
- shinigami
shinigami
31,367 corpus weight
- Shoop
Shoop
31,366 corpus weight
- signifier
signifier
31,364 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shinigami” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shinigami |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌʃɪn.ɪˈɡɑːmi/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shinigami” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shinigami is uncommon English at frequency #68,634 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌʃɪn.ɪˈɡɑːmi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A deity and/or personification of death.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shinigami in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowing from Japanese 死に神 (shinigami). The correct English form is shinigami, spelled S-H-I-N-I-G-A-M-I.
Definition
- 1A deity and/or personification of death.
Etymology
Borrowing from Japanese 死に神 (shinigami).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).