constraints
/kənˈstɹeɪnts/
"constraints" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“constraints” has 18 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,589
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of constraint
Corpus desk
Index EN-constraints · constraints · English
constraints · rank #9,589 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,589
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH confront
Nearest frequency peer: confront (-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 “constraints”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- communism
communism
90,415 corpus weight
- conductor
conductor
90,414 corpus weight
- confront
confront
90,413 corpus weight
- constraints
constraints
90,412 corpus weight
- crow
crow
90,411 corpus weight
- Davidson
Davidson
90,409 corpus weight
What this shows “constraints” 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 | constraints |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kənˈstɹeɪnts/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “constraints”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around constraints (IPA /kənˈstɹeɪnts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,589 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of constraint".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for constraints, with forms such as "cconstraints", "cnostraints", and "connstraints". 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, "constrain", "constraint", "constrained", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is constraints, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-A-I-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of constraint
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconstraints
- cnostraints
- connstraints
- consrtaints
- consstraints
- constarints
- constrainnts
- constrainst
- constraintss
- constraintts
- constraitns
- constranits
- constriants
- constrraints
- consttraints
- contsraints
- cosntraints
- ocnstraints
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of constraints - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).