Paz
"paz" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Paz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,859) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,859
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A river in El Salvador.
Corpus desk
Index EN-paz · Paz · English
Paz · rank #24,859 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,859
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Patsy
Nearest frequency peer: Patsy (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “Paz”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Parramatta
Parramatta
75,146 corpus weight
- patriarchy
patriarchy
75,144 corpus weight
- Patsy
Patsy
75,143 corpus weight
- Paz
Paz
75,142 corpus weight
- peaking
peaking
75,140 corpus weight
- pedagogy
pedagogy
75,139 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Paz” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Paz”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Paz is neighbouring look-alikes ("PM", "PC", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #24,859 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Gloss: "A river in El Salvador.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Paz in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PM", "PC", "PP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Paz. The correct English form is Paz, spelled P-A-Z.
Definition
- 1A river in El Salvador.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Paz.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).