paddy wagon
"paddy-wagon" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paddy wagon” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A police van for transporting prisoners.
Corpus desk
Index EN-paddy-wagon · paddy wagon · English
paddy wagon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | paddy wagon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “paddy wagon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
paddy wagon is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A police van for transporting prisoners.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for paddy wagon, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Supposedly from Paddy, a derogatory name for an Irishman. The correct English form is paddy wagon, spelled P-A-D-D-Y- -W-A-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1A police van for transporting prisoners.
Etymology
Supposedly from Paddy, a derogatory name for an Irishman.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.