yonsei
"yonsei" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yonsei” is uncommon English (frequency #98,910 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,910
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The fourth generation or great-grandchildren of Japanese immigrants, particularly in North America and in Latin America.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yonsei · yonsei · English
yonsei · rank #98,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,910
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yeses
Nearest frequency peer: yeses (-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 “yonsei”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Yakutsk
Yakutsk
1,093 corpus weight
- yeses
yeses
1,092 corpus weight
- yonsei
yonsei
1,091 corpus weight
- zazen
zazen
1,089 corpus weight
- ZD
ZD
1,088 corpus weight
- zealotry
zealotry
1,087 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yonsei” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yonsei |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yonsei” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yonsei is uncommon English at frequency #98,910 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The fourth generation or great-grandchildren of Japanese immigrants, particularly in North America and in Latin America.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for yonsei in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 四世 (よんせい (yonsei)), from 四 (yon-, “fourth”) + 世 (sei, “generation”). The correct English form is yonsei, spelled Y-O-N-S-E-I.
Definition
- 1The fourth generation or great-grandchildren of Japanese immigrants, particularly in North America and in Latin America.
Etymology
From Japanese 四世 (よんせい (yonsei)), from 四 (yon-, “fourth”) + 世 (sei, “generation”).
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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