Pescara
"pescara" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pescara” is uncommon English (frequency #97,431 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,431
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A province of Abruzzo, Italy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pescara · Pescara · English
Pescara · rank #97,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,431
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH petard
Nearest frequency peer: petard (+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 “Pescara”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pedes
pedes
2,576 corpus weight
- penge
penge
2,575 corpus weight
- Pense
Pense
2,573 corpus weight
- Pescara
Pescara
2,570 corpus weight
- petard
petard
2,569 corpus weight
- Phaedrus
Phaedrus
2,566 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Pescara” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pescara |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Pescara” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Pescara is uncommon English at frequency #97,431 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Pescara, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Pescara. The correct English form is Pescara, spelled P-E-S-C-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1A province of Abruzzo, Italy.
- 2The capital city of the province of Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Pescara.
This word in other languages
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).