palenque
"palenque" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“palenque” is uncommon English (frequency #92,972 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,972
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A community of runaway slaves.
Corpus desk
Index EN-palenque · palenque · English
palenque · rank #92,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,972
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Palestrina
Nearest frequency peer: Palestrina (+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 “palenque”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- oversensiti…
oversensitive
7,034 corpus weight
- OWI
OWI
7,033 corpus weight
- paan
paan
7,031 corpus weight
- palenque
palenque
7,029 corpus weight
- Palestrina
Palestrina
7,028 corpus weight
- Pande
Pande
7,026 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “palenque” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palenque |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “palenque” in English
Rare enough to double-check
palenque is uncommon English at frequency #92,972 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A community of runaway slaves.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for palenque, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish Palenque, the name of a maroon settlement in Colombia, from palenque (“palisade”). The correct English form is palenque, spelled P-A-L-E-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1A community of runaway slaves.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how palenque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Different from dozens of other palenques that were vanquished, this community has successfully fended off threats to its existence to this day.
Etymology
From Spanish Palenque, the name of a maroon settlement in Colombia, from palenque (“palisade”).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).