Padstow
"padstow" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Padstow” is uncommon English (frequency #71,770 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,770
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A suburb of Sydney in the Canterbury-Bankstown council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-padstow · Padstow · English
Padstow · rank #71,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,770
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH paise
Nearest frequency peer: paise (+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 “Padstow”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- overreprese…
overrepresented
28,235 corpus weight
- Padstow
Padstow
28,231 corpus weight
- paise
paise
28,230 corpus weight
- palmar
palmar
28,229 corpus weight
- Panza
Panza
28,228 corpus weight
- Paphos
Paphos
28,227 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Padstow” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Padstow |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Padstow” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Padstow is uncommon English at frequency #71,770 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Padstow in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: A corruption of Saint Petroc + Old English stōw. The correct English form is Padstow, spelled P-A-D-S-T-O-W.
Definition
- 1A suburb of Sydney in the Canterbury-Bankstown council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- 2A small town, civil parish, and fishing port in northern Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9175).
Etymology
A corruption of Saint Petroc + Old English stōw.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).