controversies
/ˈkɒn.tɹəˌvɜːsiz/
"controversies" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“controversies” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,110
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of controversy
Corpus desk
Index EN-controversies · controversies · English
controversies · rank #17,110 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,110
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH condensed
Nearest frequency peer: condensed (-2 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 “controversies”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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82,894 corpus weight
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82,893 corpus weight
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82,891 corpus weight
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82,889 corpus weight
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82,888 corpus weight
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What this shows “controversies” 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 | controversies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɒn.tɹəˌvɜːsiz/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #17,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “controversies”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around controversies (IPA /ˈkɒn.tɹəˌvɜːsiz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,110 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of controversy".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for controversies, with forms such as "ccontroversies", "cnotroversies", and "conntroversies". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "controversial", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 controversies, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-S-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of controversy
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontroversies
- cnotroversies
- conntroversies
- conrtoversies
- contorversies
- controevrsies
- controverises
- controverrsies
- controverseis
- controversiess
- controversise
- controverssies
- controvesries
- controvresies
- controvversies
- contrroversies
- contrvoersies
- conttroversies
- cotnroversies
- ocntroversies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of controversies - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "controversies", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).