Zedekiah
"zedekiah" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Zedekiah” is uncommon English (frequency #93,349 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,349
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A biblical character, the last king of Judah before the destruction of the kingdom by Babylon.
Corpus desk
Index EN-zedekiah · Zedekiah · English
Zedekiah · rank #93,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,349
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH Yoshikawa
Nearest frequency peer: Yoshikawa (-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 “Zedekiah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Yasha
Yasha
6,657 corpus weight
- Yorkshireman
Yorkshireman
6,654 corpus weight
- Yoshikawa
Yoshikawa
6,653 corpus weight
- Zedekiah
Zedekiah
6,652 corpus weight
- Zellner
Zellner
6,650 corpus weight
- Zinnia
Zinnia
6,648 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Zedekiah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zedekiah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Zedekiah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Zedekiah is uncommon English at frequency #93,349 among 265 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Zedekiah in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew צדקיהו (“God is righteous”). The correct English form is Zedekiah, spelled Z-E-D-E-K-I-A-H.
Definition
- 1A biblical character, the last king of Judah before the destruction of the kingdom by Babylon.
- 2A male given name from Hebrew.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zedekiah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his fathers brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Etymology
From Hebrew צדקיהו (“God is righteous”).
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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