Praha
"praha" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Praha” is uncommon English (frequency #73,549 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,549
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of Prague.
Corpus desk
Index EN-praha · Praha · English
Praha · rank #73,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,549
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pricy
Nearest frequency peer: pricy (+4 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 “Praha”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- podge
podge
26,461 corpus weight
- polyamorous
polyamorous
26,460 corpus weight
- polygamist
polygamist
26,459 corpus weight
- Praha
Praha
26,452 corpus weight
- pricy
pricy
26,448 corpus weight
- pursuance
pursuance
26,443 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Praha” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Praha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Praha” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Praha is uncommon English at frequency #73,549 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of Prague.".
Praha has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Czech Praha. Doublet of Prague. The correct English form is Praha, spelled P-R-A-H-A.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Prague.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Praha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Walter W. Birge Jr. of New York, third secretary of legation and vice consul at Baghdad, designated third secretary of embassy at Praha, Czechoslovakia, and assigned vice consul at Dharan, Saudi Arabia, for temporary duty en route.
I find it very easy (too easy, perhaps) to visualize some scholarly monk coining the word in his dim cell in the midst of the Hussite religious war and passing it on out of the side of his mouth in a quick whisper at vespers, the word then going around from cowl to cowl all over Western Europe, accompanied by many a baleful glance in the direction of Prah…
Etymology
From Czech Praha. Doublet of Prague.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).