Pilsen
/ˈpɪlsən/
"pilsen" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pilsen” is uncommon English (frequency #79,856 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,856
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in western Bohemia, Czech Republic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pilsen · Pilsen · English
Pilsen · rank #79,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,856
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pili
Nearest frequency peer: pili (-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 “Pilsen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- PFD
PFD
20,149 corpus weight
- phytophthora
phytophthora
20,147 corpus weight
- pili
pili
20,146 corpus weight
- Pilsen
Pilsen
20,145 corpus weight
- Pisgah
Pisgah
20,143 corpus weight
- Piven
Piven
20,142 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Pilsen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pilsen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɪlsən/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Pilsen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Pilsen is uncommon English at frequency #79,856 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈpɪlsən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Pilsen 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Pilsen. Doublet of Plzen. The correct English form is Pilsen, spelled P-I-L-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1A city in western Bohemia, Czech Republic.
- 2A neighbourhood in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Etymology
From German Pilsen. Doublet of Plzen.
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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