Silla
"silla" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Silla” is uncommon English (frequency #61,816 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,816
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 57 BCE to 935 CE; at its maximum covering all of modern South Korea and most of modern North Korea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-silla · Silla · English
Silla · rank #61,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,816
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH silhouetted
Nearest frequency peer: silhouetted (-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 “Silla”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shuck
shuck
38,189 corpus weight
- Sidhu
Sidhu
38,188 corpus weight
- sigil
sigil
38,187 corpus weight
- silhouetted
silhouetted
38,186 corpus weight
- Silla
Silla
38,185 corpus weight
- Simonson
Simonson
38,184 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Silla” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Silla |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Silla” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Silla is uncommon English at frequency #61,816 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 57 BCE to 935 CE; at its maximum covering all of modern South Korea and most of modern North Korea.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Silla in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Revised Romanization or McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 신라(新羅) (Silla). The correct English form is Silla, spelled S-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1An ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 57 BCE to 935 CE; at its maximum covering all of modern South Korea and most of modern North Korea.
Etymology
From the Revised Romanization or McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 신라(新羅) (Silla).
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.
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.