chopsticks
/ˈt͡ʃɒpstɪks/
"chopsticks" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chopsticks” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,474
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A hand game in which players hold up a number of fingers on each hand and try, through certain moves, to eliminate their opponent's hands.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chopsticks · chopsticks · English
chopsticks · rank #31,474 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,474
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chiropractic
Nearest frequency peer: chiropractic (-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 “chopsticks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- centralised
centralised
68,530 corpus weight
- Chilton
Chilton
68,529 corpus weight
- chiropractic
chiropractic
68,528 corpus weight
- chopsticks
chopsticks
68,527 corpus weight
- CHP
CHP
68,526 corpus weight
- citizenry
citizenry
68,525 corpus weight
What this shows “chopsticks” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chopsticks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃɒpstɪks/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “chopsticks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around chopsticks (IPA /ˈt͡ʃɒpstɪks/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,474 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A hand game in which players hold up a number of fingers on each hand and try, through certain moves, to eliminate their opponent's hands.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for chopsticks, with forms such as "cchopsticks", "chhopsticks", and "choppsticks". 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. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 chopsticks, spelled C-H-O-P-S-T-I-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1A hand game in which players hold up a number of fingers on each hand and try, through certain moves, to eliminate their opponent's hands.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchopsticks
- chhopsticks
- choppsticks
- chopsitcks
- chopssticks
- chopstciks
- chopsticcks
- chopstickks
- chopstickss
- chopsticsk
- chopstikcs
- chopstticks
- choptsicks
- chospticks
- chposticks
- cohpsticks
- hcopsticks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chopsticks - 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 "chopsticks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).