Palestrina
"palestrina" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Palestrina” is uncommon English (frequency #92,973 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,973
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in Rome, Lazio, Italy; ancient Praeneste.
Corpus desk
Index EN-palestrina · Palestrina · English
Palestrina · rank #92,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,973
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH palenque
Nearest frequency peer: palenque (-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 “Palestrina”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Panmure
Panmure
7,024 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Palestrina” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Palestrina |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Palestrina” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Palestrina is uncommon English at frequency #92,973 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Palestrina in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Palestrina, ultimately from Latin Praeneste. The correct English form is Palestrina, spelled P-A-L-E-S-T-R-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1A town in Rome, Lazio, Italy; ancient Praeneste.
- 2Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 or 1526 – 1594), Italian composer.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Palestrina, ultimately from Latin Praeneste.
This word in other languages
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).