pyjama
"pyjama" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pyjama” is uncommon English (frequency #65,426 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,426
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attributive form of pyjamas.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pyjama · pyjama · English
pyjama · rank #65,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,426
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pygmalion
Nearest frequency peer: pygmalion (-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 “pyjama”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pygmalion
pygmalion
34,576 corpus weight
- pyjama
pyjama
34,575 corpus weight
- pyrolysis
pyrolysis
34,573 corpus weight
- quackery
quackery
34,572 corpus weight
- quali
quali
34,571 corpus weight
- Quarles
Quarles
34,570 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pyjama” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “pyjama” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pyjama is uncommon English at frequency #65,426 among 4,417 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pyjama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They[…] have joined the pyjama parade, proposing sleepwear as outerwear as the new way to dress up for an evening of entertaining at home or on the town.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).