congrats
/kənˈɡɹæts/
"congrats" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“congrats” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,999. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,999
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of congratulations.
Corpus desk
Index EN-congrats · congrats · English
congrats · rank #6,999 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,999
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH civilization
Nearest frequency peer: civilization (-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 “congrats”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cal
cal
93,006 corpus weight
- Caroline
Caroline
93,005 corpus weight
- characteriz…
characterized
93,004 corpus weight
- civilization
civilization
93,003 corpus weight
- congrats
congrats
93,002 corpus weight
- creativity
creativity
93,000 corpus weight
What this shows “congrats” 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 | congrats |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /kənˈɡɹæts/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “congrats”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around congrats (IPA /kənˈɡɹæts/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #6,999 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Clipping of congratulations.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for congrats, with forms such as "ccongrats", "cnograts", and "cognrats". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "congress", "contracts", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is congrats, spelled C-O-N-G-R-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Clipping of congratulations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how congrats appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You were cast in the show? Congrats!
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccongrats
- cnograts
- cognrats
- congarts
- conggrats
- congrast
- congratss
- congratts
- congrrats
- congrtas
- conngrats
- conrgats
- ocngrats
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of congrats - 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 "congrats", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).