pallor
/ˈpælɚ/
"pallor" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pallor” is uncommon English (frequency #78,912 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,912
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pallor · pallor · English
pallor · rank #78,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,912
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pagani
Nearest frequency peer: Pagani (-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 “pallor”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ozuna
Ozuna
21,092 corpus weight
- paclitaxel
paclitaxel
21,091 corpus weight
- Pagani
Pagani
21,090 corpus weight
- pallor
pallor
21,089 corpus weight
- palp
palp
21,088 corpus weight
- Pangea
Pangea
21,087 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pallor” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pallor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpælɚ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pallor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pallor is uncommon English at frequency #78,912 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpælɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pallor in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“to look pale, blanch”). The correct English form is pallor, spelled P-A-L-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1Unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pallor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
pallor of the complexion
‘Sir,’ said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, ‘that thing was not my master, and there’s the truth. My master’—here he looked round him and began to whisper—‘is a tall fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf.’
Etymology
From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“to look pale, blanch”).
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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