childrens
"childrens" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“childrens” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,399. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,399
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of child
Corpus desk
Index EN-childrens · childrens · English
childrens · rank #27,399 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,399
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH causeway
Nearest frequency peer: causeway (-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 “childrens”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Canaan
Canaan
72,605 corpus weight
- causeway
causeway
72,603 corpus weight
- childrens
childrens
72,602 corpus weight
- clamps
clamps
72,601 corpus weight
- clearest
clearest
72,600 corpus weight
- cleaver
cleaver
72,599 corpus weight
What this shows “childrens” 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 | childrens |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “childrens”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around childrens, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,399 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for childrens, with forms such as "cchildrens", "chhildrens", and "chidlrens". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "children", "childless", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: children + -s, adding the obsolete genitive or the plural marker to an already plural form. The correct English form is childrens, spelled C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural of child
- 2genitive of children
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how childrens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1980, Mary E. Arnold, Mabel Reed, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song According to Essie, “If a man didn’t pay no money for his wife and they just lived together then his childrens got a bad name. It made a man ashamed when his childrens got a bad name.”
2004, Curlee Brazell, I believe These was a consertration of young mothers who became mothers as tean agers, who the majority had mothers and fathers, who was substance abusers, these was their childrens, who had childrens at an early age, they too was substance abusers, until they was exploiting most all of their resources, on substances which could not…
Etymology
children + -s, adding the obsolete genitive or the plural marker to an already plural form.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchildrens
- chhildrens
- chidlrens
- childdrens
- childerns
- childrenns
- childrenss
- childresn
- childrnes
- childrrens
- chilldrens
- chilrdens
- chlidrens
- cihldrens
- hcildrens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of childrens - 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 "childrens", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).