pais
/ˈpeɪ/
"pais" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pais” is uncommon English (frequency #50,712 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,712
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pais · pais · English
pais · rank #50,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,712
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Oviedo
Nearest frequency peer: Oviedo (-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 “pais”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- opry
opry
49,293 corpus weight
- ourself
ourself
49,291 corpus weight
- Oviedo
Oviedo
49,290 corpus weight
- pais
pais
49,289 corpus weight
- Pamplona
Pamplona
49,288 corpus weight
- persimmon
persimmon
49,285 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pais” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pais |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpeɪ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pais” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pais is uncommon English at frequency #50,712 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pais in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French, equivalent to French pays (“country”). The correct English form is pais, spelled P-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.
Etymology
From Old French, equivalent to French pays (“country”).
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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