epoch
/ˈiːpɒk/
"epoch" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“epoch” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,662
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-epoch · epoch · English
epoch · rank #22,662 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,662
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH entourage
Nearest frequency peer: entourage (-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 “epoch”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- enclave
enclave
77,341 corpus weight
- entourage
entourage
77,340 corpus weight
- epoch
epoch
77,339 corpus weight
- evo
evo
77,338 corpus weight
- exaggerate
exaggerate
77,337 corpus weight
- exaggerating
exaggerating
77,336 corpus weight
What this shows “epoch” 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 | epoch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈiːpɒk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “epoch”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around epoch (IPA /ˈiːpɒk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,662 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for epoch, with forms such as "eopch", "epcoh", and "epocch". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "etch", "epoxy", "Erich", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω… The correct English form is epoch, spelled E-P-O-C-H.
Definition
- 1A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
- 2A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
- 3A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
- 4A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
- 5One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how epoch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I grew bitter in my words—I believed the worst of everyone; nay, I sometimes doubted the affection of my kind, my indulgent parents. But let me hastily pass over this vain and profitless epoch,—the fierce tempest, and the weary calm, were but the appointed means by which I reached the harbour of faith and rest.
And it occasionally happens that a period in which one had, hitherto, been mainly looking for the coming to birth of new things, suddenly reveals itself as an epoch of fading and decay.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “I hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, hold”). Doublet of epoche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eopch
- epcoh
- epocch
- epochh
- epohc
- eppoch
- peoch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of epoch - 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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