Persepolis
/pəˈsɛpəlɪs/
"persepolis" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Persepolis” is uncommon English (frequency #68,531 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,531
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The ceremonial capital city of Achaemenid Persia; its ruins in the present day.
| 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) |
Where “Persepolis” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Persepolis is uncommon English at frequency #68,531 among 46,516 “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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Using “Persepolis”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-E-R-S-E-P-O-L-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.