parkway
/ˈpɑɹkˌweɪ/
"parkway" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parkway” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,389. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,389
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
Corpus desk
Index EN-parkway · parkway · English
parkway · rank #18,389 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,389
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pancake
Nearest frequency peer: pancake (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “parkway”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- pacing
pacing
81,615 corpus weight
- palate
palate
81,614 corpus weight
- pancake
pancake
81,613 corpus weight
- parkway
parkway
81,612 corpus weight
- pedestal
pedestal
81,610 corpus weight
- pedigree
pedigree
81,609 corpus weight
What this shows “parkway” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parkway |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɑɹkˌweɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “parkway”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around parkway (IPA /ˈpɑɹkˌweɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,389 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for parkway, with forms such as "aprkway", "pakrway", and "parkawy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "parlay", "pathway", "parka", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From park + way. The correct English form is parkway, spelled P-A-R-K-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
- 2A scenic freeway.
- 3A divided highway with a landscaped median.
- 4A tree lawn.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parkway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This street, transferred to the West Side park system in 1879, was extended and changed into a parkway passing through that pretty and well-improved urban space, Union Park
Where the boundary roads are the only roads, the whole strip is properly called a parkway; and this name is retained even when the space between the boundary roads is reduced to lowest terms and becomes nothing more than a shaded green ribbon, devoted perhaps to the separate use of the otherwise dangerous electric cars. In other words, parkways, like park…
Etymology
From park + way.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprkway
- pakrway
- parkawy
- parkkway
- parkwayy
- parkwway
- parkwya
- parrkway
- parwkay
- pparkway
- prakway
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parkway - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parkway", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).