Pomo
"pomo" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pomo” is uncommon English (frequency #85,657 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,657
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An indigenous population native to Northern California.
| 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) |
Where “Pomo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Pomo is uncommon English at frequency #85,657 among 46,516 “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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- The one correct English spelling is P-O-M-O - 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.