Pella
"pella" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pella” is uncommon English (frequency #62,402 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,402
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pella · Pella · English
Pella · rank #62,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,402
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH peppery
Nearest frequency peer: peppery (+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 “Pella”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- partiality
partiality
37,603 corpus weight
- patronised
patronised
37,601 corpus weight
- Pella
Pella
37,599 corpus weight
- peppery
peppery
37,598 corpus weight
- Perelman
Perelman
37,597 corpus weight
- personages
personages
37,595 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Pella” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Pella” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Pella is uncommon English at frequency #62,402 among 4,417 “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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