espoused
"espoused" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“espoused” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,798. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,798
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having been espoused or claimed; held (as a belief or position).
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 | espoused |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “espoused” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around espoused, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,798 among 18,836 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for espoused, with forms such as "epsoused", "esopused", and "esposued". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "exposed", "espouse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is espoused, spelled E-S-P-O-U-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having been espoused or claimed; held (as a belief or position).
- 2Married, engaged, or in a committed monogamous relationship.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsoused
- esopused
- esposued
- espouesd
- espousde
- espousedd
- espoussed
- esppoused
- espuosed
- esspoused
- sepoused
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espoused - 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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Using “espoused”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-S-P-O-U-S-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “exposed” - see the side-by-side comparison. espoused vs exposed
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.