discontinued
/ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuːd/
"discontinued" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“discontinued” has 18 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,403
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Permanently no longer available for sale
Corpus desk
Index EN-discontinued · discontinued · English
discontinued · rank #12,403 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,403
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH ding
Nearest frequency peer: ding (-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 “discontinued”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- dicks
dicks
87,600 corpus weight
- ding
ding
87,599 corpus weight
- discontinued
discontinued
87,598 corpus weight
- displacement
displacement
87,597 corpus weight
- disrespect
disrespect
87,596 corpus weight
- distorted
distorted
87,595 corpus weight
What this shows “discontinued” 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 | discontinued |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuːd/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #12,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “discontinued”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around discontinued (IPA /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuːd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,403 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for discontinued, with forms such as "ddiscontinued", "dicsontinued", and "disccontinued". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "discontinue", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is discontinued, spelled D-I-S-C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-D.
Definition
- 1Permanently no longer available for sale
- 2Permanently no longer in production
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiscontinued
- dicsontinued
- disccontinued
- discnotinued
- disconitnued
- disconntinued
- discontineud
- discontinnued
- discontinude
- discontinuedd
- discontiuned
- discontniued
- disconttinued
- discotninued
- disocntinued
- disscontinued
- dsicontinued
- idscontinued
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discontinued - 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 "discontinued", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).