pardon me
"pardon-me" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pardon me” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorry; said as an apology.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pardon-me · pardon me · English
pardon me · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pardon me |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pardon me” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pardon me is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pardon me in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is pardon me, spelled P-A-R-D-O-N- -M-E.
Definition
- 1Sorry; said as an apology.
- 2Polite expression used to soften a contradiction.
- 3Polite expression to ask someone to repeat an utterance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pardon me appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pardon me for stepping on your foot.
Pardon me, but that is not true.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.