collarbone
"collarbone" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“collarbone” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,859
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-collarbone · collarbone · English
collarbone · rank #37,859 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,859
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH colonize
Nearest frequency peer: colonize (+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 “collarbone”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- clary
clary
62,146 corpus weight
- clinching
clinching
62,145 corpus weight
- collarbone
collarbone
62,142 corpus weight
- colonize
colonize
62,141 corpus weight
- condolence
condolence
62,140 corpus weight
- conjugated
conjugated
62,139 corpus weight
What this shows “collarbone” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collarbone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #37,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “collarbone”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around collarbone, anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,859 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for collarbone, with forms such as "ccollarbone", "clolarbone", and "colalrbone". 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 entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar + bone. The correct English form is collarbone, spelled C-O-L-L-A-R-B-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.
Etymology
From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar + bone.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollarbone
- clolarbone
- colalrbone
- colarbone
- collabrone
- collarbbone
- collarbnoe
- collarboen
- collarbonne
- collarobne
- collarrbone
- collrabone
- ocllarbone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collarbone - 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
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).