exertion
/ɪɡˈzɝʃən/
"exertion" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exertion” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,800
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An expenditure of physical or mental effort.
Corpus desk
Index EN-exertion · exertion · English
exertion · rank #32,800 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,800
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH expend
Nearest frequency peer: expend (+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 “exertion”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- erstwhile
erstwhile
67,204 corpus weight
- espoused
espoused
67,203 corpus weight
- exertion
exertion
67,201 corpus weight
- expend
expend
67,200 corpus weight
- facilitator
facilitator
67,199 corpus weight
- familia
familia
67,198 corpus weight
What this shows “exertion” 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 | exertion |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪɡˈzɝʃən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “exertion”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around exertion (IPA /ɪɡˈzɝʃən/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,800 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An expenditure of physical or mental effort.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for exertion, with forms such as "eexrtion", "exeriton", and "exerrtion". 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, "extortion", "Everton", "Egerton", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is exertion, spelled E-X-E-R-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1An expenditure of physical or mental effort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exertion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Again she felt a return of that utter despondency which had fallen upon her after Guido's death: but then she could indulge in it unmolested, and that was something of relief: now she was forced into exertion, that sort of exertion of all the most tiresome, because the least interesting...
Liverpool have looked a little jaded from their exertions in recent weeks and there was an air of desperation about their attempts to restore equality in the closing minutes in the face of the experience and game management of opponents who are time-served masters of the Champions League art.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eexrtion
- exeriton
- exerrtion
- exersion
- exertino
- exertionn
- exertoin
- exerttion
- exetrion
- exretion
- exxertion
- xeertion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exertion - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).