evident
/ˈɛv.ɪ.dənt/
"evident" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“evident” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,220
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obviously true by simple observation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-evident · evident · English
evident · rank #7,220 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,220
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH entrepreneur
Nearest frequency peer: entrepreneur (-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 “evident”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- digging
digging
92,784 corpus weight
- dock
dock
92,783 corpus weight
- entrepreneur
entrepreneur
92,782 corpus weight
- evident
evident
92,781 corpus weight
- expectation
expectation
92,780 corpus weight
- expedition
expedition
92,779 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “evident” 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 | evident |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɛv.ɪ.dənt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “evident” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around evident (IPA /ˈɛv.ɪ.dənt/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,220 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Obviously true by simple observation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for evident, with forms such as "eivdent", "evdient", and "eviddent". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "evidently", "event", "eminent", 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 Middle English evident, from Old French evident, from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). … The correct English form is evident, spelled E-V-I-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Obviously true by simple observation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how evident appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.
Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.
Etymology
From Middle English evident, from Old French evident, from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eivdent
- evdient
- eviddent
- evidennt
- evidentt
- evidetn
- evidnet
- eviednt
- evvident
- veident
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of evident - 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 "evident", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "evident" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "evidently". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #7,220 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.