pyjama
"pyjama" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pyjama” is uncommon English (frequency #65,426 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,426
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Attributive form of pyjamas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pyjama |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pyjama” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pyjama is uncommon English at frequency #65,426 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attributive form of pyjamas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pyjama, 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is pyjama, spelled P-Y-J-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Attributive form of pyjamas.
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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Using “pyjama”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-Y-J-A-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.