Shoshone
/ʃoʊˈʃoʊni/
"shoshone" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shoshone” is uncommon English (frequency #56,434 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,434
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of an Amerindian ethnic group of North America, especially of Wyoming and Idaho.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shoshone · Shoshone · English
Shoshone · rank #56,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,434
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Shlomo
Nearest frequency peer: Shlomo (-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 “Shoshone”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sheepdog
sheepdog
43,570 corpus weight
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Shivaji
43,569 corpus weight
- Shlomo
Shlomo
43,568 corpus weight
- Shoshone
Shoshone
43,567 corpus weight
- shunting
shunting
43,566 corpus weight
- sibyl
sibyl
43,564 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Shoshone” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shoshone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃoʊˈʃoʊni/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Shoshone” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Shoshone is uncommon English at frequency #56,434 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʃoʊˈʃoʊni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of an Amerindian ethnic group of North America, especially of Wyoming and Idaho.".
Shoshone has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Shoshone, spelled S-H-O-S-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A member of an Amerindian ethnic group of North America, especially of Wyoming and Idaho.
This word in other languages
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 8 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.