Nampa
/ˈnæmpə/
"nampa" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Nampa” is uncommon English (frequency #76,147 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,147
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The largest city in Canyon County, Idaho.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nampa · Nampa · English
Nampa · rank #76,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,147
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH narrowness
Nearest frequency peer: narrowness (+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 “Nampa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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Mullingar
23,861 corpus weight
- myopathy
myopathy
23,856 corpus weight
- Nampa
Nampa
23,854 corpus weight
- narrowness
narrowness
23,853 corpus weight
- Nascimento
Nascimento
23,852 corpus weight
- neatness
neatness
23,847 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Nampa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nampa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈnæmpə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Nampa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Nampa is uncommon English at frequency #76,147 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈnæmpə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The largest city in Canyon County, Idaho.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Nampa, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Shoshone nampai (“foot”). The correct English form is Nampa, spelled N-A-M-P-A.
Definition
- 1The largest city in Canyon County, Idaho.
Etymology
From Shoshone nampai (“foot”).
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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