Palmyra
/pælˈmaɪ.ɹə/
"palmyra" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Palmyra” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,946. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,946
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ancient city, an oasis in the Syrian Desert, in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again i...
Corpus desk
Index EN-palmyra · Palmyra · English
Palmyra · rank #39,946 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,946
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Ouija
Nearest frequency peer: Ouija (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Palmyra”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- OSI
OSI
60,058 corpus weight
- oth
oth
60,057 corpus weight
- Ouija
Ouija
60,056 corpus weight
- Palmyra
Palmyra
60,055 corpus weight
- Panamanian
Panamanian
60,054 corpus weight
- parapet
parapet
60,053 corpus weight
What this shows “Palmyra” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Palmyra |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /pælˈmaɪ.ɹə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Palmyra”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Palmyra (IPA /pælˈmaɪ.ɹə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,946 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Palmyra, with forms such as "aplmyra", "pallmyra", and "palmmyra". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "palma", "Palmer", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra). For more see Palmyra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia The correct English form is Palmyra, spelled P-A-L-M-Y-R-A.
Definition
- 1An ancient city, an oasis in the Syrian Desert, in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again in 1400, when it was reduced to a village.
- 2A city, the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, United States.
- 3A census-designated place, the county seat of Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
- 4A number of townships in the United States, listed under Palmyra Township.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Palmyra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the mid-fifth century B.C. Herodotus (1:131; 3.8) mentioned the importance of the cult of Al-Ilât, i.e. Allat, in ancient Arabia. Her sanctuary at Palmyra (Pl. XVII), excavated in the 1970s by the Polish mission, is in the neighborhood of the temple of Baal Shamin and lends a special character to the city's western quarter, in which Arab tribes settled…
The chief man in Palmyra had been charged by Rome to police the trade routes, paying for his militia from his own well-stuffed coffers as befitted a rich man with a civic conscience.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra). For more see Palmyra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplmyra
- pallmyra
- palmmyra
- palmrya
- palmyar
- palmyrra
- palmyyra
- palymra
- pamlyra
- plamyra
- ppalmyra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Palmyra - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).