contemplative
/kənˈtɛmplətɪv/
"contemplative" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“contemplative” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,188
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
Corpus desk
Index EN-contemplative · contemplative · English
contemplative · rank #33,188 · 20 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,188
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH connoisseur
Nearest frequency peer: connoisseur (-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 “contemplative”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- concedes
concedes
66,817 corpus weight
- confessor
confessor
66,815 corpus weight
- connoisseur
connoisseur
66,814 corpus weight
- contemplati…
contemplative
66,813 corpus weight
- convocation
convocation
66,812 corpus weight
- crosse
crosse
66,809 corpus weight
What this shows “contemplative” 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 | contemplative |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #33,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “contemplative”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around contemplative (IPA /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,188 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for contemplative, with forms such as "ccontemplative", "cnotemplative", and "conetmplative". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "contemplate", "contemplation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English contemplatyve, contemplatyf, from Old French contemplatif, from Latin contemplātīvus. The correct English form is contemplative, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-L-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
- 2Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
- 3Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation.
- 4In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as one's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contemplative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he.
Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their contemplative heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House [...] may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts.
Etymology
From Middle English contemplatyve, contemplatyf, from Old French contemplatif, from Latin contemplātīvus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontemplative
- cnotemplative
- conetmplative
- conntemplative
- contemlpative
- contemmplative
- contempaltive
- contemplaitve
- contemplatiev
- contemplativve
- contemplattive
- contemplatvie
- contempllative
- contempltaive
- contempplative
- contepmlative
- contmeplative
- conttemplative
- cotnemplative
- ocntemplative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contemplative - 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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