class
/klɑːs/
"class" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“class” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #430. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #430
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-class · class · English
class · rank #430 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #430
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH york
Nearest frequency peer: york (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “class”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- understand
understand
99,574 corpus weight
- yeah
yeah
99,573 corpus weight
- york
york
99,572 corpus weight
- class
class
99,571 corpus weight
- close
close
99,570 corpus weight
- comes
comes
99,569 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “class” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | class |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /klɑːs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “class” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around class (IPA /klɑːs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #430 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 17 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for class, with forms such as "calss", "cclass", and "clas". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSS", "clay", "claw", 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 French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”… The correct English form is class, spelled C-L-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
- 2A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.
- 3The division of society into classes.
- 4Admirable behavior; elegance.
- 5A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
- 6A series of lessons covering a single subject.
- 7A single lesson in a series.
- 8A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
- 9a grade, standard, level of education.
- 10A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
- 11A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
- 12Best of its kind.
- 13A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
- 14A collection of sets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).
- 15A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
- 16A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
- 17One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how class appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
Etymology
From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calss
- cclass
- clas
- cllass
- clsas
- lcass
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of class - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "class", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
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.