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
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “chopsticks” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around chopsticks (IPA /ˈt͡ʃɒpstɪks/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,474 among 43,570 “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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Using “chopsticks”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-O-P-S-T-I-C-K-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈt͡ʃɒpstɪks/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.