pavan
"pavan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pavan” is uncommon English (frequency #92,984 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,984
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-pavan · pavan · English
pavan · rank #92,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,984
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH paunch
Nearest frequency peer: paunch (-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 “pavan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- parp
parp
7,021 corpus weight
- paunch
paunch
7,018 corpus weight
- pavan
pavan
7,017 corpus weight
- Paxil
Paxil
7,016 corpus weight
- peckish
peckish
7,014 corpus weight
- pedagogue
pedagogue
7,013 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pavan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pavan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pavan is uncommon English at frequency #92,984 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pavan, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is pavan, spelled P-A-V-A-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pavan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again.
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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