Phillis
"phillis" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Phillis” is uncommon English (frequency #82,662 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,662
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from Ancient Greek.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Phillis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Phillis” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Phillis is uncommon English at frequency #82,662 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Ancient Greek.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Phillis in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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: A less common spelling of Phyllis. The correct English form is Phillis, spelled P-H-I-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Etymology
A less common spelling of Phyllis.
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 “Phillis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-H-I-L-L-I-S - 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.