craigslist
"craigslist" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“craigslist” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,526. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,526
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To advertise (a product or service) on the Craigslist website.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craigslist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “craigslist” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around craigslist, averb. Corpus frequency is #18,526 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "To advertise (a product or service) on the Craigslist website.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for craigslist, with forms such as "carigslist", "ccraigslist", and "cragislist". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the name of the website, itself from Craig's list (after founder Craig Newmark). The correct English form is craigslist, spelled C-R-A-I-G-S-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1To advertise (a product or service) on the Craigslist website.
Etymology
From the name of the website, itself from Craig's list (after founder Craig Newmark).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carigslist
- ccraigslist
- cragislist
- craiggslist
- craiglsist
- craigsilst
- craigslisst
- craigslistt
- craigslits
- craigsllist
- craigslsit
- craigsslist
- craisglist
- criagslist
- crraigslist
- rcaigslist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of craigslist - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “craigslist”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-R-A-I-G-S-L-I-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.