pardo
"pardo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pardo” is uncommon English (frequency #52,545 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,545
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A former money of account in Portuguese India, one twentieth of a rupia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pardo · pardo · English
pardo · rank #52,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,545
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pardew
Nearest frequency peer: Pardew (-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 “pardo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Palmdale
Palmdale
47,459 corpus weight
- paratrooper
paratrooper
47,458 corpus weight
- Pardew
Pardew
47,457 corpus weight
- pardo
pardo
47,456 corpus weight
- patrimony
patrimony
47,455 corpus weight
- perchance
perchance
47,454 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pardo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pardo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pardo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pardo is uncommon English at frequency #52,545 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A former money of account in Portuguese India, one twentieth of a rupia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pardo in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Portuguese pardao (an obsolete spelling of pardau), from Sanskrit प्रतापः (pratāpaḥ), which was written on the coins. The correct English form is pardo, spelled P-A-R-D-O.
Definition
- 1A former money of account in Portuguese India, one twentieth of a rupia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese pardao (an obsolete spelling of pardau), from Sanskrit प्रतापः (pratāpaḥ), which was written on the coins.
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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