parsa
"parsa" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parsa” is uncommon English (frequency #99,678 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,678
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four kilometers, approximately the distance a man can walk in 72 minutes; a parasang.
Corpus desk
Index EN-parsa · parsa · English
parsa · rank #99,678 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,678
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH parrying
Nearest frequency peer: parrying (-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 “parsa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- paratha
paratha
327 corpus weight
- pard
pard
325 corpus weight
- parrying
parrying
324 corpus weight
- parsa
parsa
323 corpus weight
- partaken
partaken
322 corpus weight
- Parth
Parth
321 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “parsa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parsa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “parsa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
parsa is uncommon English at frequency #99,678 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four kilometers, approximately the distance a man can walk in 72 minutes; a parasang.".
No misspelling variants are generated for parsa in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Hebrew פרסה (parsa) The correct English form is parsa, spelled P-A-R-S-A.
Definition
- 1A Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four kilometers, approximately the distance a man can walk in 72 minutes; a parasang.
Etymology
Hebrew פרסה (parsa)
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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