pone
/ˈpəʊni/
"pone" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pone” is uncommon English (frequency #78,948 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,948
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pone · pone · English
pone · rank #78,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,948
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH poorhouse
Nearest frequency peer: poorhouse (+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 “pone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- plaice
plaice
21,059 corpus weight
- polythene
polythene
21,056 corpus weight
- Pomerania
Pomerania
21,055 corpus weight
- pone
pone
21,053 corpus weight
- poorhouse
poorhouse
21,052 corpus weight
- portcullis
portcullis
21,050 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpəʊni/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pone is uncommon English at frequency #78,948 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpəʊni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pone in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English pone, from Anglo-Norman pone, from Late Latin pone, from Latin pōne, imperative of pōnere (“to place”). The correct English form is pone, spelled P-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
- 2A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pone, from Anglo-Norman pone, from Late Latin pone, from Latin pōne, imperative of pōnere (“to 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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