Pacific Ocean
"pacific-ocean" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pacific Ocean” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pacific-ocean · Pacific Ocean · English
Pacific Ocean · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pacific Ocean |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Pacific Ocean” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Pacific Ocean is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Pacific Ocean in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters. The correct English form is Pacific Ocean, spelled P-A-C-I-F-I-C- -O-C-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pacific Ocean appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In a Saturday news release, NORAD said the fighters were working to redirect the turboprop west, out over the Pacific Ocean, before it crashed on Ketron Island.
Etymology
cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.