Pará
"para" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pará” is uncommon English (frequency #96,339 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,339
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Belém.
Corpus desk
Index EN-para · Pará · English
Pará · rank #96,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,339
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH parvovirus
Nearest frequency peer: parvovirus (-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 “Pará”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- parthenogen…
parthenogenesis
3,664 corpus weight
- parvovirus
parvovirus
3,663 corpus weight
- Pará
Pará
3,662 corpus weight
- patentee
patentee
3,661 corpus weight
- patronymic
patronymic
3,660 corpus weight
- pawed
pawed
3,659 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Pará” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pará |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Pará” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Pará is uncommon English at frequency #96,339 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Belém.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Pará in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Portuguese Pará, from Old Tupi pará (“sea”). The correct English form is Pará, spelled P-A-R-Á.
Definition
- 1A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Belém.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pará appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The increasingly confrontational tactics of rightwing ruralistas (farming, timber and mining interests) were evident at a civil society gathering in Altamira, in Pará state, on Monday morning.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese Pará, from Old Tupi pará (“sea”).
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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