Panay
/pɐˈn̪aɪ̯/
"panay" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Panay” is uncommon English (frequency #87,652 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,652
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An island of the Philippines, located in the Visayas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Panay |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /pɐˈn̪aɪ̯/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Panay” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Panay is uncommon English at frequency #87,652 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /pɐˈn̪aɪ̯/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An island of the Philippines, located in the Visayas.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Panay, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish Panay, from Ati Aninipay. The correct English form is Panay, spelled P-A-N-A-Y.
Definition
- 1An island of the Philippines, located in the Visayas.
Etymology
From Spanish Panay, from Ati Aninipay.
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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Using “Panay”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-N-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.