checkbook
/ˈt͡ʃɛk.bʊk/
"checkbook" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“checkbook” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,266. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,266
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of chequebook.
Corpus desk
Index EN-checkbook · checkbook · English
checkbook · rank #45,266 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,266
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chatterjee
Nearest frequency peer: Chatterjee (-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 “checkbook”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Changi
Changi
54,739 corpus weight
- charlatan
charlatan
54,737 corpus weight
- Chatterjee
Chatterjee
54,736 corpus weight
- checkbook
checkbook
54,735 corpus weight
- Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh
54,734 corpus weight
- chomping
chomping
54,730 corpus weight
What this shows “checkbook” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | checkbook |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃɛk.bʊk/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “checkbook”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around checkbook (IPA /ˈt͡ʃɛk.bʊk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,266 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative form of chequebook.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for checkbook, with forms such as "ccheckbook", "cehckbook", and "chcekbook". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is checkbook, spelled C-H-E-C-K-B-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of chequebook.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccheckbook
- cehckbook
- chcekbook
- checbkook
- checckbook
- checkbbook
- checkbok
- checkboko
- checkbookk
- checkkbook
- checkobok
- chekcbook
- chheckbook
- hceckbook
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of checkbook - 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 "checkbook", 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).