eyewitness
"eyewitness" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eyewitness” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,082. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,082
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eyewitness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eyewitness” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around eyewitness, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,082 among 18,836 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for eyewitness, with forms such as "eeywitness", "eyeiwtness", and "eyewintess". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From eye + witness. The correct English form is eyewitness, spelled E-Y-E-W-I-T-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
Etymology
From eye + witness.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eeywitness,eyeiwtness,eyewintess,eyewitenss,eyewitnes,eyewitnness,eyewitnses,eyewittness,eyewtiness,eyewwitness,eyweitness,eyyewitness,yeewitness
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eyewitness - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “eyewitness”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-Y-E-W-I-T-N-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.