education
/ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/
"education" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“education” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #526. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #526
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-education · education · English
education · rank #526 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #526
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH e
Nearest frequency peer: e (-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 “education”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- according
according
99,478 corpus weight
- available
available
99,477 corpus weight
- e
e
99,476 corpus weight
- education
education
99,475 corpus weight
- final
final
99,474 corpus weight
- former
former
99,473 corpus weight
What this shows “education” 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 | education |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “education”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around education (IPA /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #526 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for education, with forms such as "deucation", "edcuation", and "edducation". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "equation", "educator", "emulation", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“to educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“to lead forth, to take out; to raise up, to erect”). See educate. Morphologically educate + -ion. The correct English form is education, spelled E-D-U-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
- 2Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
- 3Upbringing, rearing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how education appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For though education, in the true sense of the word, is necessary to excellence, yet a question still lies open, What is education? Is it certain old rules of thinking which require to be forced on the individual by others, more particularly than those which, by the exercise of his own faculties, he perceives in nature and life within and around him, and…
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“to educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“to lead forth, to take out; to raise up, to erect”). See educate. Morphologically educate + -ion.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- deucation
- edcuation
- edducation
- eduaction
- educaiton
- educasion
- educatino
- educationn
- educatoin
- educattion
- educcation
- eductaion
- eudcation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of education - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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