Shoah
/ˈʃəʊ.ə/
"shoah" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shoah” is uncommon English (frequency #66,290 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,290
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shoah · Shoah · English
Shoah · rank #66,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,290
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shuttling
Nearest frequency peer: shuttling (+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 “Shoah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Shedd
Shedd
33,716 corpus weight
- shimada
shimada
33,713 corpus weight
- Shoah
Shoah
33,711 corpus weight
- shuttling
shuttling
33,710 corpus weight
- Sirte
Sirte
33,707 corpus weight
- Sisyphus
Sisyphus
33,706 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Shoah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shoah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃəʊ.ə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Shoah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Shoah is uncommon English at frequency #66,290 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈʃəʊ.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Shoah, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”). The correct English form is Shoah, spelled S-H-O-A-H.
Definition
- 1The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Shoah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I never knew him, or any of my other relatives who died in the Shoah. But I would gladly dump every ounce of that gold into the ocean, just to give them a decent burial.
Etymology
From Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”).
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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