Pequot
/ˈpiːˌkwɒt/
"pequot" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pequot” is uncommon English (frequency #95,256 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,256
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pequot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpiːˌkwɒt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pequot” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Pequot is uncommon English at frequency #95,256 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpiːˌkwɒt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.".
Pequot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Attested in English since the 1620s/1630s, from Narragansett Pequttôog (“people of the shoals”) (compare Abenaki pôgwa (“shallow, shoal”)). The correct English form is Pequot, spelled P-E-Q-U-O-T.
Definition
- 1A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.
Etymology
Attested in English since the 1620s/1630s, from Narragansett Pequttôog (“people of the shoals”) (compare Abenaki pôgwa (“shallow, shoal”)).
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 “Pequot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-E-Q-U-O-T - 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.