punjab

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The English entry for Punjab is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pʌnˈdʒɑːb/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,445 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Punjab, with forms such as "pnujab", "ppunjab", and "pujnab". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Punjabi", "puja", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬ / پنجاب (pañjāb), from Classical Persian پَنْجَاب (panjāb, “[Land of] the Five Rivers”), from پَنْج (panj, “five”) and آب (āb, “water”), referring to five rivers of the Punjab region: the Jhelum, the Chenab, the Ravi, the Sutlej and the B… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Punjab, spelled P-U-N-J-A-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.