palaeontology
"palaeontology" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“palaeontology” is uncommon English (frequency #66,913 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,913
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of paleontology.
Corpus desk
Index EN-palaeontology · palaeontology · English
palaeontology · rank #66,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,913
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH paisa
Nearest frequency peer: paisa (-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 “palaeontology”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- overeat
overeat
33,092 corpus weight
- overrode
overrode
33,091 corpus weight
- paisa
paisa
33,089 corpus weight
- palaeontolo…
palaeontology
33,088 corpus weight
- Pankaj
Pankaj
33,086 corpus weight
- parfum
parfum
33,085 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “palaeontology” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palaeontology |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #66,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “palaeontology” in English
Rare enough to double-check
palaeontology is uncommon English at frequency #66,913 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of paleontology.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for palaeontology, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is palaeontology, spelled P-A-L-A-E-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of paleontology.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how palaeontology appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Literally tens of pence with an ammonoid fossil to highlight how bling bling the world of palaeontology has become
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).