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palisades

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Detailed reference entry for the English word "palisades", 9-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "palisades" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "palisades" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.

Palisades is aEnglishname. It means: A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.

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Key facts for Palisades
PropertyValue
HeadwordPalisades
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechName
Letters9
Frequency rank#37,138
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Palisades in English word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for Palisades is 9 letters long, classified as aname. Corpus data places it at rank #37,138 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Palisades, with forms such as "aplisades", "pailsades", and "paliasdes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Palisades, spelled P-A-L-I-S-A-D-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.
  2. 2
    A group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra Nevada, California.
  3. 3
    A mountain range of Napa County, California.
  4. 4
    Ellipsis of Pacific Palisades: a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aplisades,pailsades,paliasdes,palisaddes,palisadess,palisadse,palisaeds,palisdaes,palissades,pallisades,palsiades,plaisades,ppalisades

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Palisades

Misspelling Variants of "Palisades"

aplisades9pailsades9paliasdes9palisaddes10palisadess10palisadse9palisaeds9palisdaes9
Misspelling Variants of "Palisades"

Frequency rank: #37,138 in English

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Palisades"?
"Palisades" is spelled P-A-L-I-S-A-D-E-S.
What does "Palisades" mean?
As a name, "Palisades" means: A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.
What are common misspellings of "Palisades"?
Common misspellings include "aplisades", "pailsades", "paliasdes", "palisaddes", "palisadess". The correct spelling is "Palisades".
What language does "Palisades" come from?
"Palisades" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.