Parmenides
"parmenides" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Parmenides” is uncommon English (frequency #90,821 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,821
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, in southern Italy. Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-parmenides · Parmenides · English
Parmenides · rank #90,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,821
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Parekh
Nearest frequency peer: Parekh (-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 “Parmenides”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Packwood
Packwood
9,185 corpus weight
- Panjabi
Panjabi
9,183 corpus weight
- Parekh
Parekh
9,181 corpus weight
- Parmenides
Parmenides
9,180 corpus weight
- Passy
Passy
9,177 corpus weight
- pawning
pawning
9,175 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Parmenides” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Parmenides |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Parmenides” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Parmenides is uncommon English at frequency #90,821 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, in southern Italy. Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.".
Parmenides has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Παρμενίδης (Parmenídēs). The correct English form is Parmenides, spelled P-A-R-M-E-N-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1An Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, in southern Italy. Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Παρμενίδης (Parmenídēs).
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); 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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