cheapest
"cheapest" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cheapest” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,344
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of cheap: most cheap
Corpus desk
Index EN-cheapest · cheapest · English
cheapest · rank #10,344 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,344
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chandler
Nearest frequency peer: chandler (-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 “cheapest”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- butcher
butcher
89,661 corpus weight
- c'mon
c'mon
89,660 corpus weight
- café
café
89,659 corpus weight
- chandler
chandler
89,658 corpus weight
- cheapest
cheapest
89,657 corpus weight
- Chloe
Chloe
89,656 corpus weight
What this shows “cheapest” 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 | cheapest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cheapest”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cheapest, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,344 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "superlative form of cheap: most cheap".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cheapest, with forms such as "ccheapest", "cehapest", and "chaepest". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "clearest", "cleanest", "cheaper", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is cheapest, spelled C-H-E-A-P-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of cheap: most cheap
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cheapest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccheapest
- cehapest
- chaepest
- cheaepst
- cheapesst
- cheapestt
- cheapets
- cheappest
- cheapset
- chepaest
- chheapest
- hceapest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cheapest - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cheapest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).