Suwon
"suwon" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Suwon” is uncommon English (frequency #86,814 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,814
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-suwon · Suwon · English
Suwon · rank #86,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,814
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH superstorm
Nearest frequency peer: superstorm (-2 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 “Suwon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sunstone
sunstone
13,191 corpus weight
- supercup
supercup
13,190 corpus weight
- superstorm
superstorm
13,189 corpus weight
- Suwon
Suwon
13,187 corpus weight
- Swalwell
Swalwell
13,184 corpus weight
- swashbuckler
swashbuckler
13,183 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Suwon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Suwon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Suwon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Suwon is uncommon English at frequency #86,814 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Suwon, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Korean 수원(水原) (Suwon). The correct English form is Suwon, spelled S-U-W-O-N.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Suwon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A group of anti-Park farmers who tried to drive into the capital on tractors and trucks had skirmishes with police overnight in Suwon, just south of the capital, Seoul.
Park Jeong-jae, a district court judge in Suwon, south of Seoul, said on Thursday in his ruling on Mr. Yoon’s case, “It was a wrong verdict based on faulty investigations.”
Etymology
From Korean 수원(水原) (Suwon).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).