Takao
/tæˈkaʊ/
"takao" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Takao” is uncommon English (frequency #75,468 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,468
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of Kaohsiung.
Corpus desk
Index EN-takao · Takao · English
Takao · rank #75,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,468
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Taguchi
Nearest frequency peer: Taguchi (-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 “Takao”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Swope
Swope
24,536 corpus weight
- sycophant
sycophant
24,535 corpus weight
- Taguchi
Taguchi
24,534 corpus weight
- Takao
Takao
24,533 corpus weight
- Tanna
Tanna
24,532 corpus weight
- Tatarstan
Tatarstan
24,530 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Takao” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Takao |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /tæˈkaʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Takao” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Takao is uncommon English at frequency #75,468 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /tæˈkaʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of Kaohsiung.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Takao, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 高(たか)雄(お) (Takao), from Min Nan 打狗 (Tá-káu). The correct English form is Takao, spelled T-A-K-A-O.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Kaohsiung.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Takao appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Foreign observers who were at Keelung March 8 state that in mid-afternoon the streets of the city were cleared suddenly by machine gun fire directed at no particular objects or persons. After dark ships docked and discharged the troops for which the Governor apparently had been waiting. Fairly reliable sources estimate that about 2,000 police were landed,…
A descendant of Robert Swinhoe, the first British consul in what was then known as Formosa, on Thursday visited the British Consulate at Takow (打狗英國領事館) in Kaohsiung, hoping to deepen his understanding of his ancestor. ¶ Robert Swinhoe was stationed in Taiwan in July 1861 as the first British vice-consul, and he set up the first British Consular Office in…
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 高(たか)雄(お) (Takao), from Min Nan 打狗 (Tá-káu).
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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