customary
/ˈkʌs.tə.m(ə.)ɹi/
"customary" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“customary” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,306
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-customary · customary · English
customary · rank #14,306 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,306
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cues
Nearest frequency peer: cues (-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 “customary”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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85,700 corpus weight
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countess
85,699 corpus weight
- cues
cues
85,696 corpus weight
- customary
customary
85,695 corpus weight
- Dalton
Dalton
85,694 corpus weight
- debuted
debuted
85,693 corpus weight
What this shows “customary” 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 | customary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkʌs.tə.m(ə.)ɹi/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “customary”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around customary (IPA /ˈkʌs.tə.m(ə.)ɹi/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,306 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for customary, with forms such as "ccustomary", "csutomary", and "cusotmary". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "customer", "customers", "customarily", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English custumary, from Medieval Latin custumarius. By surface analysis, custom + -ary. The correct English form is customary, spelled C-U-S-T-O-M-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage.
- 2Holding or held by custom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how customary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.
Etymology
From Middle English custumary, from Medieval Latin custumarius. By surface analysis, custom + -ary.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccustomary
- csutomary
- cusotmary
- cusstomary
- custmoary
- custoamry
- customarry
- customaryy
- customayr
- custommary
- customray
- custtomary
- cutsomary
- ucstomary
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of customary - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).