Yokosuka
"yokosuka" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yokosuka” is uncommon English (frequency #92,270 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,270
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yokosuka · Yokosuka · English
Yokosuka · rank #92,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,270
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yok
Nearest frequency peer: yok (-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 “Yokosuka”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- XSS
XSS
7,736 corpus weight
- yok
yok
7,732 corpus weight
- Yokosuka
Yokosuka
7,731 corpus weight
- Zanotti
Zanotti
7,726 corpus weight
- Zarate
Zarate
7,725 corpus weight
- zari
zari
7,724 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Yokosuka” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yokosuka |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Yokosuka” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Yokosuka is uncommon English at frequency #92,270 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Yokosuka, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 横(よこ)須(す)賀(か) (Yokosuka). The correct English form is Yokosuka, spelled Y-O-K-O-S-U-K-A.
Definition
- 1A city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
- 2Ellipsis of United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, a US naval base in the city.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 横(よこ)須(す)賀(か) (Yokosuka).
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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