Pashto
/ˈpæʃtəʊ/
"pashto" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pashto” is uncommon English (frequency #56,349 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,349
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The native Indo-Iranian language of the Pashtun people; an official language of Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pashto · Pashto · English
Pashto · rank #56,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,349
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Parrott
Nearest frequency peer: Parrott (-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 “Pashto”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Parrott
Parrott
43,653 corpus weight
- Pashto
Pashto
43,652 corpus weight
- pata
pata
43,651 corpus weight
- patriarchate
patriarchate
43,650 corpus weight
- pav
pav
43,649 corpus weight
- penmanship
penmanship
43,648 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Pashto” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pashto |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpæʃtəʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Pashto” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Pashto is uncommon English at frequency #56,349 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpæʃtəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The native Indo-Iranian language of the Pashtun people; an official language of Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.".
Pashto has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Pashto پښتو (paẍto). The correct English form is Pashto, spelled P-A-S-H-T-O.
Definition
- 1The native Indo-Iranian language of the Pashtun people; an official language of Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pashto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tariq clenched his teeth and muttered something to himself in Pashto that Laila didn’t catch.
Etymology
Borrowed from Pashto پښتو (paẍto).
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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