drawstring
"drawstring" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drawstring” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,342
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A string or cord, encased in a fabric tube, with one or more small openings into the tube, on a bag or garment, allowing the item to be closed (as with a bag) or tightened (as with sweatpants or a ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-drawstring · drawstring · English
drawstring · rank #45,342 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,342
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drunkenly
Nearest frequency peer: drunkenly (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “drawstring”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- doon
doon
54,663 corpus weight
- drawstring
drawstring
54,659 corpus weight
- drunkenly
drunkenly
54,658 corpus weight
- dumbbell
dumbbell
54,657 corpus weight
- dutiful
dutiful
54,656 corpus weight
- Earhart
Earhart
54,655 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “drawstring” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drawstring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drawstring” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around drawstring, anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,342 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A string or cord, encased in a fabric tube, with one or more small openings into the tube, on a bag or garment, allowing the item to be closed (as with a bag) or tightened (as with sweatpants or a ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for drawstring, with forms such as "darwstring", "ddrawstring", and "draswtring". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From draw + string. The correct English form is drawstring, spelled D-R-A-W-S-T-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A string or cord, encased in a fabric tube, with one or more small openings into the tube, on a bag or garment, allowing the item to be closed (as with a bag) or tightened (as with sweatpants or a bathing suit).
Etymology
From draw + string.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- darwstring
- ddrawstring
- draswtring
- drawsrting
- drawsstring
- drawstirng
- drawstrign
- drawstringg
- drawstrinng
- drawstrnig
- drawstrring
- drawsttring
- drawtsring
- drawwstring
- drrawstring
- drwastring
- rdawstring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drawstring - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "drawstring", 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 (17 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 17 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #45,342 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.