# park

> English word · Noun · IPA /pɑɹk/ · frequency rank #717

## Definitions
1. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
2. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
3. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
4. A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
5. An area used for specific purposes.
6. An area used for specific purposes.
7. An area used for specific purposes.
8. An area used for specific purposes.
9. An inventory of matériel.
10. A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
11. The gear into which one shifts an automatic transmission when one is parking a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol P on a shifter's labeling.)

## Etymology
From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.

## Easily confused with
- **PR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pr)
- **PK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pk)
- **per** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-per)
- **pay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pay)
- **pro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pro)
- **pat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pat)
- **pas** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pas)
- **paw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-paw)
- **pax** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pax)
- **PCR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pcr)
- **Paz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-paz)
- **PRC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-prc)
- **pry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pry)
- **pau** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pau)
- **PKK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pkk)
- **PRA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pra)
- **pur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pur)
- **PRS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-prs)
- **PBR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pbr)
- **pir** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/park-vs-pir)

## Common misspellings (6)
`aprk`, `pakr`, `parkk`, `parrk`, `ppark`, `prak`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/park