4th
"4th" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“4th” sits in 5 confusable pairs (corpus #2,710) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,710
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of fourth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-4th · 4th · English
4th · rank #2,710 · 0 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,710
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "4" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH victims
Nearest frequency peer: victims (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “4th”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- victim
victim
97,293 corpus weight
- victims
victims
97,292 corpus weight
- 4th
4th
97,291 corpus weight
- agents
agents
97,290 corpus weight
- Amazon
Amazon
97,289 corpus weight
- arrest
arrest
97,288 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “4th” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | 4th |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “4th”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 4th is neighbouring look-alikes ("4X", "4x4", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #2,710. Gloss: "Abbreviation of fourth.".
No misspelling variants are generated for 4th in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "4X", "4x4", "4", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is 4th, spelled 4-T-H.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of fourth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 4th appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nevertheless, the federal government still manages to get things done on a day-to-day basis, and that is primarily due to the so-called 4th branch of government — the administrative and regulatory state that employs 2 million workers, invests trillions of dollars each year on things like air pollution monitoring and cutting-edge clean energy research, and…
This word in other languages
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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