paddock
/ˈpædək/
"paddock" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paddock” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #25,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,161
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
Corpus desk
Index EN-paddock · paddock · English
paddock · rank #25,161 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #25,161
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Paddington
Nearest frequency peer: Paddington (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “paddock”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- outfield
outfield
74,843 corpus weight
- oy
oy
74,842 corpus weight
- Paddington
Paddington
74,841 corpus weight
- paddock
paddock
74,840 corpus weight
- padre
padre
74,839 corpus weight
- pang
pang
74,838 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “paddock” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paddock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpædək/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paddock” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around paddock (IPA /ˈpædək/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,161 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for paddock, with forms such as "apddock", "paddcok", and "paddocck". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "padlock", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is almost certainly a variant of dialectal British parrock (“enclosure; park; croft, small field, paddock”), from Middle English parrok, parrock (“enclosed pasture, paddock; coop; feeding stall; cabin, hut”) [and other forms], from Old English pear… The correct English form is paddock, spelled P-A-D-D-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
- 2An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- 3An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- 4A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
- 5A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
- 6A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paddock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Upon this information, they instantly passed through the hall once more, and ran across the lawn after their father, who was deliberately pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock.
A jargonell pear tree at one end of the cottage, a rivulet, and flower-plot of a rood in extent, in front, and a kitchen-garden behind; a paddock for a cow, and a small field, cultivated with several crops of grain rather for the benefit of the cottager than for sale, announced the warm and cordial comforts which Old England, even at her most northern ext…
Etymology
The noun is almost certainly a variant of dialectal British parrock (“enclosure; park; croft, small field, paddock”), from Middle English parrok, parrock (“enclosed pasture, paddock; coop; feeding stall; cabin, hut”) [and other forms], from Old English pearroc, pearruc (“fence used to enclose a space; area enclosed by such a fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *parruk (“enclosure; pen for animals”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“fence; enclosure”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *barō (“bar, beam; barrier”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”). Equivalent to park + -ock. Doublet of park. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Danish park (“pond”) * Dutch perk (“flowerbed; garden; pen”) * German Pferch (“sheepfold, sheep-pen”)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apddock
- paddcok
- paddocck
- paddockk
- paddokc
- padock
- padodck
- pdadock
- ppaddock
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paddock - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.