assorted
"assorted" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“assorted” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,040
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composed of a number of different kinds or types; mixed; miscellaneous.
Corpus desk
Index EN-assorted · assorted · English
assorted · rank #20,040 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,040
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH axel
Nearest frequency peer: axel (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “assorted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- arenas
arenas
79,964 corpus weight
- assay
assay
79,963 corpus weight
- assorted
assorted
79,961 corpus weight
- axel
axel
79,960 corpus weight
- badminton
badminton
79,959 corpus weight
- barbarian
barbarian
79,958 corpus weight
What this shows “assorted” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | assorted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “assorted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around assorted, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,040 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Composed of a number of different kinds or types; mixed; miscellaneous.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for assorted, with forms such as "asorted", "asosrted", and "assoretd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "assured", "aborted", "assisted", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is assorted, spelled A-S-S-O-R-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Composed of a number of different kinds or types; mixed; miscellaneous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how assorted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nor was I ever able to treat myself to the national drunkard's delight that is the ‘munchy box’: a foot-square pizza carton crammed with onion rings, doner meat shavings, hunks of nan bread and nuggets of assorted bhaji, all served on a bed of Glasgow salad.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asorted
- asosrted
- assoretd
- assorrted
- assortde
- assortedd
- assortted
- assotred
- assroted
- sasorted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assorted - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).