Yousafzai
"yousafzai" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yousafzai” is uncommon English (frequency #64,845 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,845
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yousafzai · Yousafzai · English
Yousafzai · rank #64,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,845
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yoked
Nearest frequency peer: yoked (-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 “Yousafzai”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wooten
Wooten
35,161 corpus weight
- yoked
yoked
35,157 corpus weight
- Yousafzai
Yousafzai
35,156 corpus weight
- Zahn
Zahn
35,155 corpus weight
- Zaidi
Zaidi
35,154 corpus weight
- zakat
zakat
35,153 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Yousafzai” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yousafzai |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Yousafzai” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Yousafzai is uncommon English at frequency #64,845 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Yousafzai in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Yousafzai, spelled Y-O-U-S-A-F-Z-A-I.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Yousafzai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Craftspeople, from suzanis and carpet makers to potters, had to work in factories to play their parts in the planned economic machine, said Professor Shumaila Yousafzai, the director of NURCE, who also worked on the book.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).