clarence
"clarence" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clarence” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,000
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-clarence · clarence · English
clarence · rank #11,000 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,000
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH CB
Nearest frequency peer: CB (-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 “clarence”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Cambodia
Cambodia
89,004 corpus weight
- capt
capt
89,003 corpus weight
- CB
CB
89,002 corpus weight
- clarence
clarence
89,001 corpus weight
- coating
coating
89,000 corpus weight
- consolidati…
consolidation
88,998 corpus weight
What this shows “clarence” 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 | clarence |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “clarence”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around clarence, anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,000 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for clarence, with forms such as "calrence", "cclarence", and "claernce". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Clarice", "clearance", "cadence", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, later to become William IV of the United Kingdom. The correct English form is clarence, spelled C-L-A-R-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1A kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.
Etymology
Named after Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, later to become William IV of the United Kingdom.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calrence
- cclarence
- claernce
- clarance
- clarecne
- clarencce
- clarenec
- clarennce
- clarnece
- clarrence
- cllarence
- clraence
- lcarence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clarence - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).