pulver
"pulver" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pulver” is uncommon English (frequency #76,243 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,243
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Powder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pulver · pulver · English
pulver · rank #76,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,243
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pursing
Nearest frequency peer: pursing (+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 “pulver”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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proscenium
23,761 corpus weight
- pseudoephed…
pseudoephedrine
23,760 corpus weight
- pulver
pulver
23,758 corpus weight
- pursing
pursing
23,757 corpus weight
- Putrajaya
Putrajaya
23,756 corpus weight
- puzzlement
puzzlement
23,755 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pulver” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pulver |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pulver” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pulver is uncommon English at frequency #76,243 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Powder.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pulver in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 Middle English pulver, from Latin pulver-, pulvis. Doublet of powder. The correct English form is pulver, spelled P-U-L-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Powder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pulver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Take fine Suger ℔ ß. Spec. Diarhod. Abbatis ʒ ß. vvhyte Ambre beinge pulverzatede like meale ʒ jß. vvhyt povvndede Muſtarde ſeede, ʒ ß. Annis, and Fennelle Oyle. or in place therof, ℥ j ß. of Aqva vitæ, fine totalle, and not foraminatede Pearles, beinge verye ſmalle pulverizatede ʒ ß. you muſt liqvefye the Suger, vvith the vvater, of vvilde blacke Gherrye…
This also was a new tinder that did quickly fyre the puluer of discention, which blew wp the bulwarke of this once so hopefull and so happie a freindshipe, and rankled the old wound, and brought it anew a blooding; […]
Etymology
From Middle English pulver, from Latin pulver-, pulvis. Doublet of powder.
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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