ecommerce
"ecommerce" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ecommerce” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,582. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,582
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of e-commerce.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ecommerce · ecommerce · English
ecommerce · rank #19,582 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,582
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH downed
Nearest frequency peer: downed (-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 “ecommerce”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- disproporti…
disproportionately
80,422 corpus weight
- dives
dives
80,421 corpus weight
- downed
downed
80,420 corpus weight
- ecommerce
ecommerce
80,419 corpus weight
- emery
emery
80,418 corpus weight
- enrich
enrich
80,417 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ecommerce” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ecommerce |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ecommerce” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ecommerce, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,582 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative form of e-commerce.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ecommerce, with forms such as "ceommerce", "eccommerce", and "ecmomerce". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From e- + commerce. The correct English form is ecommerce, spelled E-C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of e-commerce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ecommerce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In year 2014 around three billion people around the world are reported to use internet for using social networking applications, ecommerce applications, surfing the web etc which is tenfold times as compared to 1993.
Etymology
From e- + commerce.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ceommerce
- eccommerce
- ecmomerce
- ecomemrce
- ecomerce
- ecommecre
- ecommercce
- ecommerec
- ecommerrce
- ecommrece
- eocmmerce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ecommerce - 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 "ecommerce", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "ecommerce". Here's where to go from here.
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #19,582 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.