Pashtun
"pashtun" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pashtun” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,304. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,304
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), o...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pashtun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pashtun” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Pashtun, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,304 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), o...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pashtun, with forms such as "apshtun", "pahstun", and "pashhtun". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Pashto پښتون (pax̌tūn). Doublet of Pathan. The correct English form is Pashtun, spelled P-A-S-H-T-U-N.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), or to their culture.
Etymology
Borrowed from Pashto پښتون (pax̌tūn). Doublet of Pathan.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apshtun
- pahstun
- pashhtun
- pashtnu
- pashttun
- pashtunn
- pashutn
- passhtun
- pasthun
- ppashtun
- psahtun
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pashtun - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Pashtun”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-S-H-T-U-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.