Shizuoka
"shizuoka" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shizuoka” is uncommon English (frequency #73,633 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,633
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A prefecture of Japan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shizuoka · Shizuoka · English
Shizuoka · rank #73,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,633
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shipowner
Nearest frequency peer: shipowner (-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 “Shizuoka”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shareef
shareef
26,374 corpus weight
- shari'a
shari'a
26,373 corpus weight
- shipowner
shipowner
26,369 corpus weight
- Shizuoka
Shizuoka
26,368 corpus weight
- shoegaze
shoegaze
26,367 corpus weight
- Smriti
Smriti
26,362 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Shizuoka” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shizuoka |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Shizuoka” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Shizuoka is uncommon English at frequency #73,633 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Shizuoka in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 静 (shizu, “calm”) and 岡 (oka, “hill”). The correct English form is Shizuoka, spelled S-H-I-Z-U-O-K-A.
Definition
- 1A prefecture of Japan.
- 2The capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Etymology
From Japanese 静 (shizu, “calm”) and 岡 (oka, “hill”).
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).