pastis
/pæsˈtiːs/
"pastis" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pastis” is uncommon English (frequency #97,421 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,421
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A liqueur containing aniseed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pastis · pastis · English
pastis · rank #97,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,421
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH passim
Nearest frequency peer: passim (-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 “pastis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- paroxetine
paroxetine
2,585 corpus weight
- Parthia
Parthia
2,583 corpus weight
- passim
passim
2,581 corpus weight
- pastis
pastis
2,580 corpus weight
- PDQ
PDQ
2,577 corpus weight
- pedes
pedes
2,576 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pastis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pastis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pæsˈtiːs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pastis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pastis is uncommon English at frequency #97,421 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pæsˈtiːs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A liqueur containing aniseed.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pastis in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French pastis. The correct English form is pastis, spelled P-A-S-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1A liqueur containing aniseed.
Etymology
Borrowed from French pastis.
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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