Persepolis
/pəˈsɛpəlɪs/
"persepolis" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Persepolis” is uncommon English (frequency #68,531 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,531
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The ceremonial capital city of Achaemenid Persia; its ruins in the present day.
Corpus desk
Index EN-persepolis · Persepolis · English
Persepolis · rank #68,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,531
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH perioperative
Nearest frequency peer: perioperative (-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 “Persepolis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Pelly
Pelly
31,472 corpus weight
- perioperati…
perioperative
31,471 corpus weight
- Persepolis
Persepolis
31,470 corpus weight
- pipette
pipette
31,468 corpus weight
- pirating
pirating
31,467 corpus weight
- piso
piso
31,466 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Persepolis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Persepolis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /pəˈsɛpəlɪs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Persepolis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Persepolis is uncommon English at frequency #68,531 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /pəˈsɛpəlɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The ceremonial capital city of Achaemenid Persia; its ruins in the present day.".
Persepolis has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Persepolis, from Ancient Greek Περσέπολις (Persépolis), from Πέρσης (Pérsēs, “Persian”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa, “Persis, Persia, a Persian, Persepolis”) although ancient Greek writers relate a folk etymology tha… The correct English form is Persepolis, spelled P-E-R-S-E-P-O-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1The ceremonial capital city of Achaemenid Persia; its ruins in the present day.
Etymology
From Latin Persepolis, from Ancient Greek Περσέπολις (Persépolis), from Πέρσης (Pérsēs, “Persian”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa, “Persis, Persia, a Persian, Persepolis”) although ancient Greek writers relate a folk etymology that derived the city, country, and people's name from Ancient Greek πέρθειν (pérthein, “to sack, to kill”).
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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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