Yukio
"yukio" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yukio” is uncommon English (frequency #63,388 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,388
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Japanese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yukio · Yukio · English
Yukio · rank #63,388 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,388
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH zai
Nearest frequency peer: zai (+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 “Yukio”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Yorkie
Yorkie
36,616 corpus weight
- Yukio
Yukio
36,613 corpus weight
- zai
zai
36,612 corpus weight
- ZF
ZF
36,611 corpus weight
- Zhivago
Zhivago
36,610 corpus weight
- Zohar
Zohar
36,609 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Yukio” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yukio |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Yukio” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Yukio is uncommon English at frequency #63,388 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name from Japanese.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Yukio in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese ゆきお (Yukio). The correct English form is Yukio, spelled Y-U-K-I-O.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Japanese.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ゆきお (Yukio).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).