pacey
"pacey" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pacey” is uncommon English (frequency #58,914 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,914
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fast, rapid, speedy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pacey · pacey · English
pacey · rank #58,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,914
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH overshot
Nearest frequency peer: overshot (-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 “pacey”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- overcharging
overcharging
41,090 corpus weight
- overexpress…
overexpression
41,089 corpus weight
- overshot
overshot
41,088 corpus weight
- pacey
pacey
41,087 corpus weight
- paean
paean
41,085 corpus weight
- parodying
parodying
41,084 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pacey” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pacey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pacey” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pacey is uncommon English at frequency #58,914 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fast, rapid, speedy.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pacey in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pace + -y. The correct English form is pacey, spelled P-A-C-E-Y.
Definition
- 1fast, rapid, speedy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pacey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.
Etymology
From pace + -y.
This word in other languages
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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