despatches
/dɪsˈpætʃəz/
"despatches" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“despatches” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,575. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,575
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of despatch
Corpus desk
Index EN-despatches · despatches · English
despatches · rank #47,575 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,575
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Derrida
Nearest frequency peer: Derrida (-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 “despatches”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- denigrate
denigrate
52,429 corpus weight
- Dennison
Dennison
52,428 corpus weight
- Derrida
Derrida
52,427 corpus weight
- despatches
despatches
52,426 corpus weight
- detonator
detonator
52,425 corpus weight
- Devereux
Devereux
52,423 corpus weight
What this shows “despatches” 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 | despatches |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪsˈpætʃəz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “despatches”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around despatches (IPA /dɪsˈpætʃəz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,575 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of despatch".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for despatches, with forms such as "ddespatches", "depsatches", and "desaptches". 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, "dispatcher", "despatch", "despatched", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is despatches, spelled D-E-S-P-A-T-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of despatch
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddespatches
- depsatches
- desaptches
- despacthes
- despatcches
- despatcehs
- despatchess
- despatchhes
- despatchse
- despathces
- despattches
- desppatches
- desptaches
- desspatches
- dsepatches
- edspatches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of despatches - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "despatches", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).