countrywide
/ˌkʌn.tɹiˈwaɪd/
"countrywide" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“countrywide” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,189
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Throughout a country.
Corpus desk
Index EN-countrywide · countrywide · English
countrywide · rank #40,189 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #40,189
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH costumed
Nearest frequency peer: costumed (-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 “countrywide”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Cooney
Cooney
59,815 corpus weight
- cordless
cordless
59,814 corpus weight
- costumed
costumed
59,813 corpus weight
- countrywide
countrywide
59,812 corpus weight
- creepers
creepers
59,810 corpus weight
- crony
crony
59,809 corpus weight
What this shows “countrywide” 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 | countrywide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌkʌn.tɹiˈwaɪd/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #40,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “countrywide”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around countrywide (IPA /ˌkʌn.tɹiˈwaɪd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,189 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Throughout a country.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for countrywide, with forms such as "ccountrywide", "conutrywide", and "counntrywide". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "countryside", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From country + -wide. The correct English form is countrywide, spelled C-O-U-N-T-R-Y-W-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Throughout a country.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how countrywide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.
Sure of his superiority, Chiang launched a countrywide offensive to establish his supremacy. In October, his troops occupied the important North China city of Changchiakou (Kalgan) and a number of other cities evacuated by the People's Liberation Army in accordance with its strategy of not holding cities but concentrating on wiping out enemy troops.
Etymology
From country + -wide.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccountrywide
- conutrywide
- counntrywide
- counrtywide
- countrrywide
- countrwyide
- countryiwde
- countrywdie
- countrywidde
- countrywied
- countrywwide
- countryywide
- counttrywide
- countyrwide
- coutnrywide
- cuontrywide
- ocuntrywide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of countrywide - 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 "countrywide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (17 here; floor ≥5).