shoji
"shoji" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shoji” is uncommon English (frequency #69,445 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,445
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shoji · shoji · English
shoji · rank #69,445 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,445
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH Shmuel
Nearest frequency peer: Shmuel (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shoji”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shithouse
shithouse
30,559 corpus weight
- shitshow
shitshow
30,558 corpus weight
- Shmuel
Shmuel
30,557 corpus weight
- shoji
shoji
30,556 corpus weight
- Shuttleworth
Shuttleworth
30,555 corpus weight
- shying
shying
30,554 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shoji” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shoji |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shoji” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shoji is uncommon English at frequency #69,445 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for shoji, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 障子 (shōji). The correct English form is shoji, spelled S-H-O-J-I.
Definition
- 1A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 障子 (shōji).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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.