Paderborn
"paderborn" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Paderborn” is uncommon English (frequency #84,593 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,593
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Corpus desk
Index EN-paderborn · Paderborn · English
Paderborn · rank #84,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,593
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pangasinan
Nearest frequency peer: Pangasinan (+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 “Paderborn”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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15,413 corpus weight
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- Paderborn
Paderborn
15,408 corpus weight
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15,407 corpus weight
- pathogenici…
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15,403 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “Paderborn” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paderborn |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Paderborn” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Paderborn is uncommon English at frequency #84,593 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city and rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Paderborn, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Paderborn. The correct English form is Paderborn, spelled P-A-D-E-R-B-O-R-N.
Definition
- 1A city and rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Etymology
From German Paderborn.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).