Pella
"pella" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pella” is uncommon English (frequency #62,402 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,402
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pella |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pella” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Pella is uncommon English at frequency #62,402 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Pella in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Pella from Ancient Greek Πέλλα (Pélla), from Ancient Greek πέλλα (pélla) (presumably from an earlier *πέλσα) from Proto-Indo-European *pels- (“stone”). Cognates include Irish aill (“boulder, cliff”), Pashto پرښه (parša, “rock, rocky ledge”), Sans… The correct English form is Pella, spelled P-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1An ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.
- 2A regional unit of Greece in its periphery of Central Macedonia.
- 3A town of Greece in Central Macedonia.
Etymology
From Latin Pella from Ancient Greek Πέλλα (Pélla), from Ancient Greek πέλλα (pélla) (presumably from an earlier *πέλσα) from Proto-Indo-European *pels- (“stone”). Cognates include Irish aill (“boulder, cliff”), Pashto پرښه (parša, “rock, rocky ledge”), Sanskrit पाषाण m (pāṣāṇa) / पाषी f (pāṣī, “stone”), Proto-Germanic *falisaz, English fell (“rocky ridge”), Old Norse fell / fjall (“mountain”), German Fels (“rock, cliff”)
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 “Pella”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-E-L-L-A - 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.