Pauley
"pauley" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pauley” is uncommon English (frequency #58,271 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,271
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname transferred from the given name.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pauley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pauley” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Pauley is uncommon English at frequency #58,271 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname transferred from the given name.".
Pauley doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Paul. The correct English form is Pauley, spelled P-A-U-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname transferred from the given name.
Etymology
From a medieval diminutive of the given name Paul.
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 “Pauley”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-U-L-E-Y - 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.