PASOK
"pasok" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“PASOK” is uncommon English (frequency #71,781 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,781
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, a Greek political party.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pasok · PASOK · English
PASOK · rank #71,781 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,781
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pasig
Nearest frequency peer: Pasig (-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 “PASOK”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Paphos
Paphos
28,227 corpus weight
- parasitology
parasitology
28,224 corpus weight
- Pasig
Pasig
28,221 corpus weight
- PASOK
PASOK
28,220 corpus weight
- permeating
permeating
28,216 corpus weight
- perse
perse
28,214 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “PASOK” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PASOK |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “PASOK” in English
Rare enough to double-check
PASOK is uncommon English at frequency #71,781 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, a Greek political party.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for PASOK, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Greek ΠΑΣΟΚ (PASOK), from πανελλήνιο (panellínio, “panhellenic”) + σοσιαλιστικό (sosialistikó, “socialist”) + κίνημα (kínima, “movement”). The correct English form is PASOK, spelled P-A-S-O-K.
Definition
- 1The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, a Greek political party.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PASOK appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One of the noticeable trends in European politics in the past decade has been the decline of the traditional center-left parties. This is described by the popular term "PASOKification," named after the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Greece and its epic fall from power in the 2010s.
As such, the electoral collapse and marginalisation of PASOK was a prominent example of the general decline of major social-democratic parties in Western Europe, which was often accompanied by the emergence of nationalist, left-wing or right-wing parties. A trend labelled 'Pasokification'.
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ΠΑΣΟΚ (PASOK), from πανελλήνιο (panellínio, “panhellenic”) + σοσιαλιστικό (sosialistikó, “socialist”) + κίνημα (kínima, “movement”).
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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