Augustine
/ɔːˈɡʌstɪn/
"augustine" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Augustine” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,697. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,697
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Latin, notably borne by Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), a church father and a writer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-augustine · Augustine · English
Augustine · rank #14,697 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,697
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH auditorium
Nearest frequency peer: auditorium (-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 “Augustine”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ATP
ATP
85,307 corpus weight
- auditorium
auditorium
85,305 corpus weight
- Augustine
Augustine
85,304 corpus weight
- barking
barking
85,303 corpus weight
- Bauer
Bauer
85,302 corpus weight
- Beckham
Beckham
85,301 corpus weight
What this shows “Augustine” 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 | Augustine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɔːˈɡʌstɪn/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Augustine”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Augustine (IPA /ɔːˈɡʌstɪn/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,697 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A male given name from Latin, notably borne by Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), a church father and a writer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Augustine, with forms such as "aguustine", "auggustine", and "augsutine". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "auguste", "Augustin", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Augustīnus, derivative of Augustus. Doublet of Austin. The correct English form is Augustine, spelled A-U-G-U-S-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Latin, notably borne by Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), a church father and a writer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Augustine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The ordo amoris can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles radiating outward from ourselves, beginning with loving God, who is, as Augustine put it, “closer to us than we are to ourselves,” and ending with loving the rest of the world outside our own country.
Etymology
From Latin Augustīnus, derivative of Augustus. Doublet of Austin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aguustine
- auggustine
- augsutine
- augusitne
- augusstine
- augustien
- augustinne
- augustnie
- augusttine
- augutsine
- auugstine
- uagustine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Augustine - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).