Excalibur
/ɛksˈkæ.lɪ.bɚ/
"excalibur" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Excalibur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,167. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,167
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The legendary sword of King Arthur, having magical properties.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Excalibur |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɛksˈkæ.lɪ.bɚ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Excalibur” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Excalibur (IPA /ɛksˈkæ.lɪ.bɚ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,167 among 18,836 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The legendary sword of King Arthur, having magical properties.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Excalibur, with forms such as "ecxalibur", "exaclibur", and "excailbur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Excalaber, from Old French Escalibor, Escaliborc, prothetic form of Calliborc, alteration of Calibourne, from Medieval Latin Caliburnus (Geoffrey of Monmouth, ca. 1136), influenced by calibs (“steel”) (for chalybs), alteration of Old Wel… The correct English form is Excalibur, spelled E-X-C-A-L-I-B-U-R.
Definition
- 1The legendary sword of King Arthur, having magical properties.
Etymology
From Middle English Excalaber, from Old French Escalibor, Escaliborc, prothetic form of Calliborc, alteration of Calibourne, from Medieval Latin Caliburnus (Geoffrey of Monmouth, ca. 1136), influenced by calibs (“steel”) (for chalybs), alteration of Old Welsh Caledbulch (compare modern Caledfwlch), compound of caled (“hard”) and bwlch (“cleft, crack”). Related to the Irish legendary sword Caladbolg, literally ‘hard-belly’, i.e. ‘voracious’.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxalibur
- exaclibur
- excailbur
- excalbiur
- excalibbur
- excalibru
- excaliburr
- excaliubr
- excallibur
- exccalibur
- exclaibur
- exxcalibur
- xecalibur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Excalibur - 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 “Excalibur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-X-C-A-L-I-B-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɛksˈkæ.lɪ.bɚ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.