8th
"8th" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“8th” sits in 1 confusable pair (corpus #4,731) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,731
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of eighth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-8th · 8th · English
8th · rank #4,731 · 0 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,731
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "8" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH ABC
Nearest frequency peer: ABC (+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 “8th”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- wheels
wheels
95,273 corpus weight
- ye
ye
95,272 corpus weight
- 8th
8th
95,270 corpus weight
- ABC
ABC
95,269 corpus weight
- abortion
abortion
95,268 corpus weight
- accuracy
accuracy
95,267 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “8th” 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 | 8th |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “8th”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 8th is neighbouring look-alikes ("8"), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #4,731. Gloss: "Abbreviation of eighth.".
8th doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "8", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is 8th, spelled 8-T-H.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of eighth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 8th appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Where the old Jewish community-relations strategy was to identify and influence the fence-sitters and “complicate” their understanding of Israel, the new October 8th strategy must be to keep leftist ideologues out of mainstream institutions — or kick them out.
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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