declare
/dɪˈklɛə/
"declare" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“declare” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,555. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,555
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To make clear, explain, interpret.
Corpus desk
Index EN-declare · declare · English
declare · rank #6,555 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,555
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH crops
Nearest frequency peer: crops (-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 “declare”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Clarke
Clarke
93,450 corpus weight
- comeback
comeback
93,449 corpus weight
- cos
cos
93,448 corpus weight
- crops
crops
93,447 corpus weight
- declare
declare
93,446 corpus weight
- detect
detect
93,444 corpus weight
What this shows “declare” 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 | declare |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪˈklɛə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “declare”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around declare (IPA /dɪˈklɛə/), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,555 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for declare, with forms such as "dcelare", "ddeclare", and "decalre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "decline", "deflate", "declared", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”). The correct English form is declare, spelled D-E-C-L-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1To make clear, explain, interpret.
- 2To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
- 3To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
- 4To show one's cards in order to score.
- 5For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
- 6The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.
- 7To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
- 8to declare war
- 9To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how declare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.
To declare this a little, vve muſt aſſume, that the Surfaces of all ſuch Bodies, […] are exactly ſmooth only in a popular, or at moſt in a Phyſical ſenſe, but not in a ſtrict and rigid ſenſe.
Etymology
From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcelare
- ddeclare
- decalre
- decclare
- declaer
- declarre
- decllare
- declrae
- delcare
- edclare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of declare - 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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