Paphos
"paphos" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Paphos” is uncommon English (frequency #71,774 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,774
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Cyprus, known in antiquity as the birthplace of Aphrodite.
Corpus desk
Index EN-paphos · Paphos · English
Paphos · rank #71,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,774
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Panza
Nearest frequency peer: Panza (-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 “Paphos”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Padstow
Padstow
28,231 corpus weight
- paise
paise
28,230 corpus weight
- palmar
palmar
28,229 corpus weight
- Panza
Panza
28,228 corpus weight
- Paphos
Paphos
28,227 corpus weight
- parasitology
parasitology
28,224 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Paphos” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paphos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Paphos” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Paphos is uncommon English at frequency #71,774 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Cyprus, known in antiquity as the birthplace of Aphrodite.".
Paphos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Πάφος (Páphos). The correct English form is Paphos, spelled P-A-P-H-O-S.
Definition
- 1A city in Cyprus, known in antiquity as the birthplace of Aphrodite.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πάφος (Páphos).
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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