blackouts
/ˈblækaʊts/
"blackouts" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blackouts” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,702. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,702
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of blackout
Corpus desk
Index EN-blackouts · blackouts · English
blackouts · rank #32,702 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,702
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blossoming
Nearest frequency peer: blossoming (+2 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 “blackouts”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bes
bes
67,304 corpus weight
- BFA
BFA
67,303 corpus weight
- Bigelow
Bigelow
67,302 corpus weight
- blackouts
blackouts
67,299 corpus weight
- blossoming
blossoming
67,297 corpus weight
- Bogota
Bogota
67,295 corpus weight
What this shows “blackouts” 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 | blackouts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblækaʊts/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “blackouts”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around blackouts (IPA /ˈblækaʊts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,702 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of blackout".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for blackouts, with forms such as "balckouts", "bblackouts", and "blacckouts". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "blackout", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is blackouts, spelled B-L-A-C-K-O-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of blackout
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- balckouts
- bblackouts
- blacckouts
- blackkouts
- blackotus
- blackoust
- blackoutss
- blackoutts
- blackuots
- blacokuts
- blakcouts
- blcakouts
- bllackouts
- lbackouts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blackouts - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "blackouts", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).