droid
/ˈdɹɔɪd/
"droid" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“droid” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,498. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,498
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
Corpus desk
Index EN-droid · droid · English
droid · rank #21,498 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,498
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drenched
Nearest frequency peer: drenched (-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 “droid”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- downgrade
downgrade
78,506 corpus weight
- dreamy
dreamy
78,505 corpus weight
- drenched
drenched
78,504 corpus weight
- droid
droid
78,503 corpus weight
- dummies
dummies
78,501 corpus weight
- Dunbar
Dunbar
78,500 corpus weight
What this shows “droid” 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 | droid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɹɔɪd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “droid”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around droid (IPA /ˈdɹɔɪd/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,498 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for droid, with forms such as "ddroid", "dorid", and "driod". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "drop", "drove", "drops", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”), coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1926) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars… The correct English form is droid, spelled D-R-O-I-D.
Definition
- 1A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
- 2A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality, or who acts in an unthinking manner; a robot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how droid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them.
“These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” [Obi-Wan] Kenobi told him pleasantly.
Etymology
Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”), coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1926) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddroid
- dorid
- driod
- drodi
- droidd
- drroid
- rdoid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of droid - 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 "droid", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).