Pomo
"pomo" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pomo” is uncommon English (frequency #85,657 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,657
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An indigenous population native to Northern California.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pomo · Pomo · English
Pomo · rank #85,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,657
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH polarizer
Nearest frequency peer: polarizer (-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 “Pomo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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playbill
14,348 corpus weight
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plumping
14,346 corpus weight
- polarizer
polarizer
14,345 corpus weight
- Pomo
Pomo
14,344 corpus weight
- Ponton
Ponton
14,343 corpus weight
- precancerous
precancerous
14,339 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Pomo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pomo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Pomo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Pomo is uncommon English at frequency #85,657 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An indigenous population native to Northern California.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Pomo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Used in English since 1877, Pomo derives from the Pomo language words /pʰoːmoː/ and /pʰoʔmaʔ/, meaning "those who live at red earth hole". It was once the name of a village in Southern Potter Valley, possibly referring to the red mineral magnesite used for … The correct English form is Pomo, spelled P-O-M-O.
Definition
- 1An indigenous population native to Northern California.
Etymology
Used in English since 1877, Pomo derives from the Pomo language words /pʰoːmoː/ and /pʰoʔmaʔ/, meaning "those who live at red earth hole". It was once the name of a village in Southern Potter Valley, possibly referring to the red mineral magnesite used for beads, or to the reddish earth and clay such as hematite mined in the area. At the same time in the Northern Pomo dialect, -pomo or -poma was used as a suffix after the names of places for subgroups of people of that place.
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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