count
/kaʊnt/
"count" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“count” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,557. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,557
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To recite numbers in sequence.
Corpus desk
Index EN-count · count · English
count · rank #1,557 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,557
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH Chicago
Nearest frequency peer: Chicago (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “count”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bus
bus
98,447 corpus weight
- cent
cent
98,446 corpus weight
- Chicago
Chicago
98,445 corpus weight
- count
count
98,444 corpus weight
- covered
covered
98,443 corpus weight
- critical
critical
98,442 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “count” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | count |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kaʊnt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “count” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around count (IPA /kaʊnt/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,557 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for count, with forms such as "ccount", "conut", and "counnt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "cult", "coup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute. Compare ty… The correct English form is count, spelled C-O-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1To recite numbers in sequence.
- 2To determine the number of (objects in a group).
- 3To amount to, to number in total.
- 4To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
- 5To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
- 6To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
- 7To reckon in, to include in consideration.
- 8To take account or note (of), to care (for).
- 9To recount, to tell.
- 10To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how count appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Can you count to a hundred?
The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.
Etymology
From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute. Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccount
- conut
- counnt
- countt
- coutn
- cuont
- ocunt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of count - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "count", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.