eatery
/ˈiːtəɹi/
"eatery" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eatery” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,900. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,900
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.
Corpus desk
Index EN-eatery · eatery · English
eatery · rank #37,900 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,900
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH duster
Nearest frequency peer: duster (-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 “eatery”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Drucker
Drucker
62,104 corpus weight
- dupe
dupe
62,103 corpus weight
- duster
duster
62,102 corpus weight
- eatery
eatery
62,101 corpus weight
- electronica
electronica
62,100 corpus weight
- elms
elms
62,099 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “eatery” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | eatery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈiːtəɹi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eatery” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around eatery (IPA /ˈiːtəɹi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,900 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for eatery, with forms such as "aetery", "eaetry", and "eaterry". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "every", "enter", "entry", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From eat + -ery. The correct English form is eatery, spelled E-A-T-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how eatery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Above the concourse, the underneath of the platforms has been clad with attractive wood panelling, while the columns holding them up are surrounded with seating - for use by passengers biding their time waiting for their trains, or who have used one of the 70-or-so eateries or shops that form part of the retail developments at the station.
Etymology
From eat + -ery.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aetery
- eaetry
- eaterry
- eateryy
- eateyr
- eatrey
- eattery
- etaery
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eatery - 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 "eatery", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "eatery" maps to 13 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "every". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #37,900 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "E" letter cohort. E–Z browse
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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.