Strabo
"strabo" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Strabo” is uncommon English (frequency #52,022 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,022
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian from Amaseia in Pontus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-strabo · Strabo · English
Strabo · rank #52,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,022
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stealer
Nearest frequency peer: stealer (-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 “Strabo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- spurring
spurring
47,984 corpus weight
- Stanislaus
Stanislaus
47,981 corpus weight
- stealer
stealer
47,980 corpus weight
- Strabo
Strabo
47,979 corpus weight
- stringy
stringy
47,978 corpus weight
- struct
struct
47,977 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Strabo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Strabo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Strabo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Strabo is uncommon English at frequency #52,022 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian from Amaseia in Pontus.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Strabo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Strabō, from Ancient Greek Στρᾰ́βων (Strắbōn). The correct English form is Strabo, spelled S-T-R-A-B-O.
Definition
- 1Ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian from Amaseia in Pontus.
Etymology
From Latin Strabō, from Ancient Greek Στρᾰ́βων (Strắbōn).
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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