pearl-of-great-price
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "pearl-of-great-price", 20-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "pearl-of-great-price" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "pearl-of-great-price" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“pearl of great price” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Anything very valuable.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pearl of great price |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pearl of great price” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for pearl of great price is 20 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Anything very valuable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pearl of great price in our index, 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: A reference to the Parable of the Pearl. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is pearl of great price, spelled P-E-A-R-L- -O-F- -G-R-E-A-T- -P-R-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anything very valuable.
Etymology
A reference to the Parable of the Pearl.
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- The one correct English spelling is P-E-A-R-L- -O-F- -G-R-E-A-T- -P-R-I-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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