Plautus
/ˈplɔːtəs/
"plautus" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Plautus” is uncommon English (frequency #86,637 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,637
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.
Corpus desk
Index EN-plautus · Plautus · English
Plautus · rank #86,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,637
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH playfield
Nearest frequency peer: playfield (+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 “Plautus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- PIV
PIV
13,367 corpus weight
- plaine
plaine
13,366 corpus weight
- Plautus
Plautus
13,364 corpus weight
- playfield
playfield
13,363 corpus weight
- Plympton
Plympton
13,362 corpus weight
- PNM
PNM
13,361 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Plautus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Plautus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈplɔːtəs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Plautus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Plautus is uncommon English at frequency #86,637 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈplɔːtəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Plautus in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Titus Maccius Plautus, the latter two names traditionally held to be stage names, from plautus (“flat-footed, flap-eared”). The correct English form is Plautus, spelled P-L-A-U-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.
Etymology
From Latin Titus Maccius Plautus, the latter two names traditionally held to be stage names, from plautus (“flat-footed, flap-eared”).
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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