drawings
/ˈdɹɔː(ɹ)ɪŋz/
"drawings" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drawings” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,676
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of drawing
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 | drawings |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɹɔː(ɹ)ɪŋz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drawings” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around drawings (IPA /ˈdɹɔː(ɹ)ɪŋz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,676 among 26,416 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of drawing".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for drawings, with forms such as "darwings", "ddrawings", and "draiwngs". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "drains", "drawing", "dealings", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is drawings, spelled D-R-A-W-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1plural of drawing
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: darwings,ddrawings,draiwngs,drawigns,drawinggs,drawingss,drawinngs,drawinsg,drawnigs,drawwings,drrawings,drwaings,rdawings
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drawings - 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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Using “drawings”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-A-W-I-N-G-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdɹɔː(ɹ)ɪŋz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “drains” - see the side-by-side comparison. drawings vs drains
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.