easement
/ˈiːzm(ə)nt/
"easement" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“easement” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,433
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the proper...
Corpus desk
Index EN-easement · easement · English
easement · rank #37,433 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #37,433
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Eames
Nearest frequency peer: Eames (-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 “easement”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Dunfermline
Dunfermline
62,570 corpus weight
- Eames
Eames
62,569 corpus weight
- easement
easement
62,568 corpus weight
- EBITDA
EBITDA
62,567 corpus weight
- Eis
Eis
62,566 corpus weight
- Eloise
Eloise
62,565 corpus weight
What this shows “easement” 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 | easement |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈiːzm(ə)nt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “easement”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around easement (IPA /ˈiːzm(ə)nt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,433 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for easement, with forms such as "aesement", "eaesment", and "easeemnt". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "element", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Anglo-Norman aisement, easement, eisement, esament, esement, and Middle French aisement (“comfort, convenience, ease, facility, opportunity; a benefit, relief; a right to use land, a thing, etc.; a privy”), from aisier (“to put at ease; to facilitate”)… The correct English form is easement, spelled E-A-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).
- 2An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.
- 3Easing; relief; assistance; support.
- 4The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
- 5Transition spiral curve track between a straight or tangent track and a circular curved track of a certain radius or selected radius.
- 6Gratification.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how easement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The power company has an easement to put their electricity poles along the edge of this land.
Eaſement is a privilege that one Neighbour hath of another, by Writing or Preſcription, without profit; as a Way or a Sink through his Land, or ſuch like.
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman aisement, easement, eisement, esament, esement, and Middle French aisement (“comfort, convenience, ease, facility, opportunity; a benefit, relief; a right to use land, a thing, etc.; a privy”), from aisier (“to put at ease; to facilitate”) + -ment (“-ment, suffix forming nouns, usually the action or state resulting from verbs”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aesement
- eaesment
- easeemnt
- easemennt
- easementt
- easemetn
- easemment
- easemnet
- easmeent
- eassement
- esaement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of easement - 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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