Yoko
"yoko" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yoko” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,360
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Japanese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yoko · Yoko · English
Yoko · rank #24,360 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,360
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yemeni
Nearest frequency peer: Yemeni (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Yoko”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- warring
warring
75,646 corpus weight
- wetland
wetland
75,645 corpus weight
- whit
whit
75,644 corpus weight
- whitehead
whitehead
75,643 corpus weight
- Yemeni
Yemeni
75,642 corpus weight
- Yoko
Yoko
75,641 corpus weight
What this shows “Yoko” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yoko |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Yoko”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Yoko, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #24,360 among 366 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name from Japanese.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yoko, with forms such as "oyko", "ykoo", and "yokko". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "you", "yoo", "yon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese ようこ (Yōko), a female given name with many variant kanji spellings. The correct English form is Yoko, spelled Y-O-K-O.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Japanese.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ようこ (Yōko), a female given name with many variant kanji spellings.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oyko
- ykoo
- yokko
- yook
- yyoko
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yoko - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Yoko", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).