Tokio
"tokio" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Tokio” is uncommon English (frequency #51,450 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,450
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of Tokyo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tokio · Tokio · English
Tokio · rank #51,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,450
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH timur
Nearest frequency peer: timur (-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 “Tokio”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- thorp
thorp
48,554 corpus weight
- tikka
tikka
48,553 corpus weight
- timur
timur
48,552 corpus weight
- Tokio
Tokio
48,551 corpus weight
- Toomey
Toomey
48,549 corpus weight
- tootsie
tootsie
48,548 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Tokio” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tokio |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Tokio” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Tokio is uncommon English at frequency #51,450 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of Tokyo.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Tokio 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Tokio, spelled T-O-K-I-O.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of Tokyo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tokio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I also thank Mr. Charles Lanman, Secretary of the Legation of Japan in Washington, for four ferrotypes taken in Seoul in 1878 by members of the Japanese embassy ; Mr. D. R. Clark, of the United States Transit of Venus Survey, for four photographs of the Corean villages in Russian Manchuria ; Mr. R. Idéura, of Tōkiō, for a set of photographs of Kang-wa and…
[…] and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness of motion.
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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