earth
/ɜːθ/
"earth" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“earth” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #923
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.
Corpus desk
Index EN-earth · earth · English
earth · rank #923 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #923
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Australia
Nearest frequency peer: Australia (-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 “earth”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- writing
writing
99,081 corpus weight
- army
army
99,080 corpus weight
- Australia
Australia
99,079 corpus weight
- earth
earth
99,078 corpus weight
- forget
forget
99,077 corpus weight
- goal
goal
99,076 corpus weight
What this shows “earth” 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 | earth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɜːθ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “earth”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around earth (IPA /ɜːθ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #923 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for earth, with forms such as "aerth", "earht", and "earrth". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "eat", "eth", "east", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”). Cognates Cognate with Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil… The correct English form is earth, spelled E-A-R-T-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how earth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.
We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
Etymology
From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”). Cognates Cognate with Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), Yola eard, eart, eord, eorth, erth (“earth”), North Frisian eerd, eerde, iarde, Iart, iir, jard, örd, Öört (“earth; world”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Alemannic German Ëërde (“earth”), Bavarian Erd, Erdn (“world; soil; ground”), Central Franconian Ääd (“earth”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aard, aarde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Limburgish eerd (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”), Norn yurn (“the earth”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 (airþa, “earth”); also Latin ōra (“border, edge, rim”), Breton erv (“ridge between furrows”), Welsh erw (“acre”), Ancient Greek ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground”), Lithuanian erdvė (“expanse, space”), Albanian varr, vorr (“grave”), Tocharian B āre (“dust, loose earth”), Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvarā, “fertile soil, field yielding crops”), Hittite 𒅕𒄩𒀸 (er-ḫa-aš /erḫaš/, “border, boundary, line”). Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aerth
- earht
- earrth
- earthh
- eartth
- eatrh
- erath
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of earth - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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