Skokie
"skokie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Skokie” is uncommon English (frequency #56,443 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,443
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-skokie · Skokie · English
Skokie · rank #56,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,443
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SKU
Nearest frequency peer: SKU (+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 “Skokie”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Silverton
Silverton
43,562 corpus weight
- Simonds
Simonds
43,560 corpus weight
- Skokie
Skokie
43,558 corpus weight
- SKU
SKU
43,557 corpus weight
- slaving
slaving
43,555 corpus weight
- smarty
smarty
43,553 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Skokie” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Skokie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Skokie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Skokie is uncommon English at frequency #56,443 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Skokie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Skokie, spelled S-K-O-K-I-E.
Definition
- 1A village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
- 2A river in northern Illinois, a tributary of the Chicago River.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Skokie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Former name: Niles Center
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).