pashmina
"pashmina" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pashmina” is uncommon English (frequency #95,243 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,243
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Cashmere; a goat native to Kashmir.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pashmina · pashmina · English
pashmina · rank #95,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,243
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH particulary
Nearest frequency peer: particulary (-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 “pashmina”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- parachutist
parachutist
4,762 corpus weight
- parodic
parodic
4,761 corpus weight
- Paros
Paros
4,760 corpus weight
- particulary
particulary
4,759 corpus weight
- pashmina
pashmina
4,758 corpus weight
- paulin
paulin
4,755 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pashmina” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pashmina |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pashmina” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pashmina is uncommon English at frequency #95,243 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pashmina, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Classical Persian پَشْمِینَه (pašmīna). Compare پشمین (pašmīn /pašmin). The correct English form is pashmina, spelled P-A-S-H-M-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1A Cashmere; a goat native to Kashmir.
- 2The fine wool that grows under the hair of this goat; cashmere.
- 3A soft fabric made from this wool; (in particular) a shawl made from this fabric.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pashmina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
However, Leh's most important product is the soft underwool of sheep and goats, most of which are tended by nomads, men who roam about the uplands with their herds. It is this fine, soft wool which is used to make the famous pashmina shawls of Kashmir.
Pashmina was invented more than four hundred years ago when Nur Jaban, wife of the Emperor Jehangir, asked her weavers to present a woolen fabric that was "as light as a cloud but as warm as a tender embrace."
Etymology
From Classical Persian پَشْمِینَه (pašmīna). Compare پشمین (pašmīn /pašmin).
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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