8
/eɪt/
"8" is a 0-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“8” sits in 4 confusable pairs (corpus #312) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #312
- frequency rank, English
- 1
- letter
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of ate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-8 · 8 · English
8 · rank #312 · 0 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #312
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "8" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH service
Nearest frequency peer: service (-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 “8”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- run
run
99,692 corpus weight
- says
says
99,691 corpus weight
- service
service
99,690 corpus weight
- 8
8
99,689 corpus weight
- country
country
99,688 corpus weight
- open
open
99,687 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “8” 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 | 8 |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /eɪt/ |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “8”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 8 is neighbouring look-alikes ("8th", "eight", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /eɪt/. Frequency #312. Gloss: "Abbreviation of ate.".
8 doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "8th", "eight", "ate", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is 8, spelled 8.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of ate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 8 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
i 8 it — I ate it.
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.