whois
/ˈhuːˌɪz/
"whois" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“whois” is uncommon English (frequency #71,219 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,219
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The WHOIS protocol or service.
Corpus desk
Index EN-whois · whois · English
whois · rank #71,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,219
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH whippet
Nearest frequency peer: whippet (-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 “whois”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Welwyn
Welwyn
28,786 corpus weight
- whippet
whippet
28,783 corpus weight
- whois
whois
28,782 corpus weight
- whorehouse
whorehouse
28,781 corpus weight
- Wigglesworth
Wigglesworth
28,779 corpus weight
- wilk
wilk
28,778 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “whois” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whois |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhuːˌɪz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “whois” in English
Rare enough to double-check
whois is uncommon English at frequency #71,219 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhuːˌɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The WHOIS protocol or service.".
No misspelling variants are generated for whois in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is whois, spelled W-H-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1The WHOIS protocol or service.
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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