# palladium

> English word · Noun · IPA /pəˈleɪdiəm/ · frequency rank #23,350

## Definitions
1. A safeguard.

## Etymology
The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an epithet used before Athena.

## Common misspellings (11)
`aplladium`, `paladium`, `palaldium`, `palladdium`, `palladimu`, `palladiumm`, `palladuim`, `pallaidum`, `palldaium`, `plaladium`, `ppalladium`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/palladium