pardo
"pardo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pardo” is uncommon English (frequency #52,545 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,545
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A former money of account in Portuguese India, one twentieth of a rupia.
| 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) |
Where “pardo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pardo is uncommon English at frequency #52,545 among 46,516 “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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Using “pardo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-R-D-O - 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.