bender
/ˈbɛndə/
"bender" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bender” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,085. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,085
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who, or that which, bends.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bender · bender · English
bender · rank #17,085 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,085
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bedding
Nearest frequency peer: bedding (-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 “bender”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- basal
basal
82,919 corpus weight
- batsman
batsman
82,918 corpus weight
- bedding
bedding
82,917 corpus weight
- bender
bender
82,916 corpus weight
- Bethlehem
Bethlehem
82,915 corpus weight
- Boi
Boi
82,913 corpus weight
What this shows “bender” 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 | bender |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɛndə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bender”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bender (IPA /ˈbɛndə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,085 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bender, with forms such as "bbender", "bedner", and "bendder". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bene", "bends", "boner", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Hypotheses: * bend + -er. In sense of “heavy drinking”, originally generally “spree”, from 1846, of uncertain origin – vague contemporary sense of “something extraordinary”, connection to bend (e.g., bending elbow to drink (bend one's elbow)) or perhaps fro… The correct English form is bender, spelled B-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who, or that which, bends.
- 2A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
- 3A bout of heavy drinking.
- 4A homosexual man.
- 5A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
- 6A suspended sentence.
- 7A sixpence.
- 8A spree, a frolic.
- 9Something exceptional.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He's been out on a bender with his mates.
A couple of students of Williams College went over to North Adams on a bender. This would have been serious matter under the best of circumstances, but each returned with a “brick in his hat,” etc.
Etymology
Hypotheses: * bend + -er. In sense of “heavy drinking”, originally generally “spree”, from 1846, of uncertain origin – vague contemporary sense of “something extraordinary”, connection to bend (e.g., bending elbow to drink (bend one's elbow)) or perhaps from Scottish sense of “strong drinker”. * In Britain, for about four centuries, a sixpence was known as a bender because its silver content made it easy to bend in the hands. This was commonly done to create ‘love tokens’, many of which survive in collections to this day. The value of a sixpence was also enough to get thoroughly inebriated as taverns would often allow you to drink all day for two pence. This gave rise to the expression ‘going on a bender’. * (interjection): From over the bender, referring to a person's arm (and sometimes accompanied by a gesture of the thumb backward over the shoulder); compare over the left shoulder.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbender
- bedner
- bendder
- benderr
- bendre
- benedr
- bennder
- bneder
- ebnder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bender - 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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