choose
/t͡ʃuːz/
"choose" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“choose” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,296. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,296
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
Corpus desk
Index EN-choose · choose · English
choose · rank #1,296 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,296
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH calls
Nearest frequency peer: calls (-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 “choose”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- anyway
anyway
98,708 corpus weight
- bought
bought
98,707 corpus weight
- calls
calls
98,706 corpus weight
- choose
choose
98,705 corpus weight
- Christmas
Christmas
98,704 corpus weight
- color
color
98,703 corpus weight
What this shows “choose” 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 | choose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /t͡ʃuːz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “choose”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around choose (IPA /t͡ʃuːz/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,296 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for choose, with forms such as "cchoose", "chhoose", and "chooes". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "coos", "close", "chose", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cheosen, chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵé… The correct English form is choose, spelled C-H-O-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
- 2To elect.
- 3To decide to act in a certain way.
- 4To prefer; to wish; to desire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how choose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.
Etymology
From Middle English cheosen, chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”). Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German Low German kiesen (“to pick, select”), archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten (via ‘to charm, allure’ and ‘to enchant’)”), Norwegian kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm, allure, enchant”), Icelandic kjósa (“to choose, vote, elect”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), Latin gustō (“to taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed”), Sanskrit जोषति (jóṣati, “to like, enjoy”), Russian кушать (kúšatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchoose
- chhoose
- chooes
- choosse
- chosoe
- cohose
- hcoose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of choose - 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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