Pima
/ˈpimə/
"pima" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pima” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,846. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,846
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of a group of American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona (USA) and Sonora (Mexico).
Corpus desk
Index EN-pima · Pima · English
Pima · rank #43,846 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,846
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pickings
Nearest frequency peer: pickings (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Pima”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- phallic
phallic
56,159 corpus weight
- phonology
phonology
56,157 corpus weight
- pickings
pickings
56,156 corpus weight
- Pima
Pima
56,155 corpus weight
- pimping
pimping
56,154 corpus weight
- plateaus
plateaus
56,152 corpus weight
What this shows “Pima” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pima |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpimə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Pima”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Pima (IPA /ˈpimə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,846 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A member of a group of American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona (USA) and Sonora (Mexico).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pima, with forms such as "ipma", "piam", and "pimma". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PM", "pin", "pit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Pima, spelled P-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1A member of a group of American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona (USA) and Sonora (Mexico).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pima appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the valley of the Gila and on its tributaries from the northeast are the Pimas, Maricopas, and Papagos.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipma
- piam
- pimma
- pmia
- ppima
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pima - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Pima", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).