Ayrshire
/ˈeːɹʃəɹ/
"ayrshire" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ayrshire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,062
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A traditional county of Scotland.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ayrshire · Ayrshire · English
Ayrshire · rank #27,062 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,062
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH augmentation
Nearest frequency peer: augmentation (-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 “Ayrshire”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- asymmetrical
asymmetrical
72,942 corpus weight
- ATF
ATF
72,941 corpus weight
- augmentation
augmentation
72,940 corpus weight
- Ayrshire
Ayrshire
72,939 corpus weight
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azalea
72,938 corpus weight
- bacterium
bacterium
72,937 corpus weight
What this shows “Ayrshire” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ayrshire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈeːɹʃəɹ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Ayrshire”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Ayrshire (IPA /ˈeːɹʃəɹ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,062 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A traditional county of Scotland.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ayrshire, with forms such as "aryshire", "ayrhsire", and "ayrrshire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Ayrshire, spelled A-Y-R-S-H-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1A traditional county of Scotland.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aryshire
- ayrhsire
- ayrrshire
- ayrshhire
- ayrshier
- ayrshirre
- ayrshrie
- ayrsihre
- ayrsshire
- aysrhire
- ayyrshire
- yarshire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ayrshire - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).