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The current study explores effects of frequency of Korean phoneme sequences on Korean speakers’ wordlikeness judgement of Korean nonce words. We begin by calculating type frequencies and r-phi values of onset-vowel and vowel-coda sequences found with Korean monosyllabic and disyllabic nouns. We then perform wordlikeness tests of Korean nonsense words to see to what extent these two statistics affect Korean users’ judgment of the nonwords as potential Korean words. The current results firstly show that in terms of type frequency both onset-vowel and vowel-coda sequences do not significantly differ whether they appear within monosyllabic words or within disyllabic words. The current results secondly suggest that type frequency of phoneme sequences affects Korean speakers’ judgement of wordlikeness of nonce words significantly more than r-phi values of phoneme sequences do. The implications of the current results are discussed from the broad perspective of how frequency of such linguistic entities as phoneme sequences affect language processing and representation.