Vilna
"vilna" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Vilna” is uncommon English (frequency #73,772 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,772
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dated form of Vilnius: the capital city of Lithuania.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vilna · Vilna · English
Vilna · rank #73,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,772
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vipassana
Nearest frequency peer: vipassana (+3 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 “Vilna”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- VAD
VAD
26,237 corpus weight
- Venizelos
Venizelos
26,234 corpus weight
- Vilna
Vilna
26,229 corpus weight
- vipassana
vipassana
26,226 corpus weight
- Vistula
Vistula
26,225 corpus weight
- vivant
vivant
26,223 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Vilna” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vilna |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Vilna” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Vilna is uncommon English at frequency #73,772 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Vilna has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Vilna, spelled V-I-L-N-A.
Definition
- 1Dated form of Vilnius: the capital city of Lithuania.
- 2A village in Alberta, Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Vilna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is a famous story about Rabbi Yisrael Salanter who ate on the Bimah in Vilna at the end of the Yom Kippur morning service in 1848 during a cholera epidemic, together with two other Dayyanim, to persuade the congregation to eat during the epidemic.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).