toki
/ˈtəʊki/
"toki" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“toki” is uncommon English (frequency #53,304 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,304
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon).
Corpus desk
Index EN-toki · toki · English
toki · rank #53,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,304
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tikrit
Nearest frequency peer: Tikrit (-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 “toki”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- textural
textural
46,702 corpus weight
- thunderclap
thunderclap
46,700 corpus weight
- Tiana
Tiana
46,699 corpus weight
- Tikrit
Tikrit
46,698 corpus weight
- toki
toki
46,697 corpus weight
- transpires
transpires
46,694 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “toki” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toki |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtəʊki/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “toki” in English
Rare enough to double-check
toki is uncommon English at frequency #53,304 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtəʊki/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for toki in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 朱鷺 (toki). The correct English form is toki, spelled T-O-K-I.
Definition
- 1A Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how toki appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Toki or Japanese crested ibis (ibis nippon) is an almost extinct kind of bird resembling the heron.
The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.
Etymology
From Japanese 朱鷺 (toki).
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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